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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. Are the scores repeatable?
Reliability
Identity foreclosure
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Independent variable
2. New experiences that fit an existing scheme ; a child sees a ew type of ball and realizes it a ball - different from his ball but understands its still a ball
Assimilation
'storm and stress'
Contributions of Piaget
Moral development
3. Characterizes : only focus on one characteristic at a time - doesnt have reversibility - often times make decisions based on how things look and have a hard time realizing that an object can posses more than one property or that it can belong to seve
Hartshore and May
Pase vs Hannon
Correlation
Preoperational stage
4. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Conservation
Double blind study
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Normal curve
5. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Invariant
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Validity
Stanine scores
6. Piaget believes a child's moral reasoning is tied to their ________; because the 6 year old child has not mastered decentration yet so he can only focus on 1 thing at a time and he focused on the size of the stain so the child with the bigger stain w
Cognitive reasoning
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Sensorimotor stage
Early maturing boys
7. Believes kids benefit more when they interact with kids people who are more skilled than they are; believes that language is critical for cognitive development to occur
Reliability and validity
Vygotsky beliefs
Control variable
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
8. There are adolescents have made a career choice - and are pursuing this choice but this choice is tentative and they can be thrown back into crisis at any time
Early maturing girls
Identity achievement
Formal operation stage
Correlation
9. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school
James Marcia
Jane Mercer
Early maturing boys
Criticisms of Piaget
10. By the age of 9 _________ disappears because they reach the cognitive level where this form of speech does not need to guide their behavior or thinking any more
Psychosocial moratorium
Sandra bem
Private speech
Nature vs nurture
11. Refers to a persons ability to monitor their own and other peoples feelings and to use this information to guide their thinking and their actions ; some people say this refers more to a personality trait
Laray Pee case
Early maturing boys
Arthur JEnsen
Emotional intelligence
12. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Vygotsky
Formal operation stage
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
13. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities
Beverly Fagot
Formal operation stage
Psychoscoial moratorium
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
14. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)
6 hour retardets
Laray Pee case
Preoperational stage
Sandra bem
15. Compare an individuals performance to that of his or her peers ; 1. they are objective 2. have predetermined answers 3. compare a student's performance to the performance of others 4. the performance is evaluated in terms of norms
Carol Gilligan
Norm reference test
Early maturing girls
Zone of Proximal Distance
16. About 7 to 11 years old; this stage is a major turning point in a child's cognitive development ; child's thinking begins to resemble that of an adult more than that of a child ; child is able to utilize conservation - decentration - and reversibilit
Concrete-operational stage
Frequency distribution
Beverly Fargot
Identity vs role confusion
17. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Kohlberg
Dependent variable
Accommodation
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
18. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Correlation
Different types of tests and surverys
Identity foreclosure
Carol Gilligan
19. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Post conventional morality
Early and late maturation
Adaptation
Grade equivalency score
20. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Grade equivalency score
Control variable
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Private speech
21. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Beverly Fargot
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Experimental and control
Correlation
22. They were more self confident - had higher self esteem - more likely to be leaders and more likely to receive favorable comments from adults ; this happens because the look ... and are better athletes; the only bad thing is that they are more likely
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Early maturing boys
Identity diffusion
Preconventional morality
23. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Adaptation
Positive correlation
Organization and adaptation
Reversibility
24. Did research and used moral dellima stories like Kohlberg to compare males to females; discovered women showed more care/concern; men experience more of a feeling of justice being served
Reliability
Organization and adaptation
Carol Gilligan
Laray Pee case
25. Describing relationships between two factors is a correlation: a statistical description of how closely two variables are related. They can range from -1.00 to +1.00.
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Correlation
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Naturalistic observations
26. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Experimental and control
Late maturing girls
Zone of Proximal Distance
Frequency distribution
27. These individuals often times have more feelings of inferiority - not as popular as the ..... typically - more likely to engage in attention getting behavior (silly goofy stuff)
Educational psychology
Psychoscoial moratorium
Late maturing boys
Lorenz - imprinting
28. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world
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29. Age 6 to 11 years; during this stage the child begins school; if they are sucsessful in school they develop a sense of accomplishment ; these feelings may stay with a child throughout their entire life
Hartshore and May
Piaget
Reversibility
Industry vs inferiority
30. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Late maturing girls
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Piaget
6 hour retardets
31. Factor being manipulated in experimental group
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Accommodation
Organization and adaptation
Independent variable
32. Psychologists observe events as they naturally occur in the real world; observe behavior w/out influencing it; used for ethical reasons(ex: child that was being physically abused as a child then became a criminal ) by observing criminals and seeing H
Naturalistic observation
Early and late maturation
Hartshore and May
Zone of Proximal Distance
33. When the experimenter or the subject dont know which group they are in ; helps to avoid experimental bias and certain kinds of treatment that may change subjects behavior
James Marcia
Independent variable
Double blind study
Intelligence
34. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared
Standardized scores
Jane Mercer
Language
Carol Gilligan
35. Ages 2 to 3 ; during this stage kids may develop a sense of independence ; they begin to walk and potty train(learn self control) - 'NO!' Erikson believes this is the child developing a sense of _______(self confidence)
Assimilation and accommodation
Erikson's criticisms
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Reliability
36. Stages all happen in the same sequence
Lorenz - imprinting
Invariant
Percentile score
Identity foreclosure
37. Being able to realize that properties can stay the same in spite of a change in appearance ; what he found from his study was children under the age of 6 said that there was more water in beaker 1 than beaker 3 (even though it was the same amount of
Jane Mercer
Conservation
Egocentric thinking
Hartshore and May
38. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
4 times - successful suicide
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Stages
Experimental methods
39. A tendency we all have to adapt or adjust to our environment; the child uses intellectual processes to transform them so they can use them for new experiences
Conservation
Learned helplessness
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Adaptation
40. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Initiative vs guilt
Cognitive reasoning
Laray Pee case
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
41. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages
BITCH test
Sandra bem
Standardized scores
Kohlberg
42. Most psychologists believe that intelligence is due to ___ ____; you cant prove which one is more or if they equal but they both play a role
Sandra bem
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Nature vs nurture
Jane Mercer
43. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
Nature vs nurture
Educational psychology
Moral development
Organization and adaptation
44. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority
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45. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Validity
Cognitive reasoning
Identity foreclosure
Psychosocial moratorium
46. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Invariant
James Marcia
Identity vs role confusion
47. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Jane Mercer
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Identity diffusion
48. Said alot of kids were able to describe what they were supposed to do in hypothetial situation but when you place them in a real life situation they often engage in the opposite behavior ; final observation: kids know the rules - they just dont follo
Hartshore and May
Percentile score
Reversibility
Lorenz - imprinting
49. 2 to about 7 years; during this stage language develops at a rapid rate - the child no longer thinks as images but in words; increase in terms of language but the way the child thinks is not yet logical
Concrete-operational stage
Kohlberg
Preoperational stage
Intelligence
50. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Positive correlation
Jean Block
Normal curve
Parallel play
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