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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






2. 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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3. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






7. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?






8. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






9. Where is this new experience causes a change in an existing scheme ; child may have to modify this scheme (ex: john lenon's child adding a new idea of what a court is )






10. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






11. 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






12. Based on the child themselves - if they reach a certain level they pass ( ex: praxis and leap test) ; measures how well a student has achieved specific objectives






13. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






14. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






15. 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






16. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)






17. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______






18. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority

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19. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






20. 1. there was no proof 2. his emphasis on identity crisis may have been from his own experiences in his life and he may have incorporated into a theory for everyone

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21. 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






22. _____ had a huge impact on






23. Based on the standard deviation






24. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?






25. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






26. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






27. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else






28. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time






29. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






30. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






31. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence

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32. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






33. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this






34. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






35. 1. 1st person that got us looking at the fact that kids develop cognitively in stages 2. got us to realize that kids think differently from each other and from adults 3. got us to realize that qualitative changes in thinking happen as a child goes






36. 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






37. Age 4 to 5 years; during this stage the child beings to learn language ; see alot of exploration from the child ; this initiative to explore will be encouraged if the child doesnt feel guilty






38. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






39. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






40. 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






41. Age of 12 to 15 years; during this stage the child will be going through adolescence and will develop a sense of ____ or _____ where they arent really sure how to behave or how to be accepted by other or who they are






42. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






43. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________






44. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






45. 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






46. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________






47. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?






48. 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






49. At any point in a child's development there are problems that the child is just on the verge of being able to solve by them but they dont have quite enough skills to solve them themselves; however - if they are given assistance/guidance they are ofte






50. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen