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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Emotional intelligence
Nature vs nurture
Think at different ages
Formal operation stage
2. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?
Intelligence
'storm and stress'
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Early maturing boys
3. Found that from an early age boys are encouraged to be competitive - to achieve - and to control the expression of their feelings; girls at an early age are encouraged to develop close relationhips - talk about their troubles - and show affection and
Scheme
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Jean Block
Invariant
4. 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
Industry vs inferiority
Decentration
Testing
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
5. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
Decentration
6 hour retardets
James Marcia
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
6. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are
Vygotsky
Clinical method
James Marcia
Preoperational stage
7. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression
Reliability and validity
Initiative vs guilt
Laray Pee case
Learned helplessness
8. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages
Percentile score
Language
Psychosocial moratorium
Kohlberg
9. Did research and found that parents tend to treat their boys and girls differently; they became negative when their daughters were overly physical or athletics ( parents were oten not aware of the negative feedback they gave when their daughter was i
Beverly Fagot
Parallel play
Invariant
Reversibility
10. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Contributions of Piaget
Cognitive reasoning
Beverly Fagot
Arthur JEnsen
11. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
Standardized testing
Post conventional morality
Correlation
Frequency distribution
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
Identity foreclosure
Standardized testing
Nature vs nurture
Criterion (criteria) reference test
13. 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
Scheme
Adaptation
Cognitive reasoning
Assimilation and accommodation
14. 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
Moral development
Vygotsky
Carol Gilligan
Initiative vs guilt
15. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Negative correlation
Frequency distribution
Vygotsky
Percentile score
16. 20 and on up if it happens at all; only a small proportion of adults get to this level; these peoplea re able to understand the moral principles behind the rules of society
Role confusions
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Post conventional morality
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
17. _____ had a huge impact on
Piaget
Organization and adaptation
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Experimental methods
18. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal
Testing
Jane Mercer
Preoperational stage
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
19. 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
Individual case study
Post conventional morality
Contributions of Piaget
Pase vs Hannon
20. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Individual case study
Invariant
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Identity diffusion
21. 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
Psychosocial moratorium
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Preoperational stage
Nature vs nurture
22. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Adaptation
Naturalistic observation
Parallel play
Invariant
23. Found that parents tend to encourage their daughters to be dependent ; she suggests that parents and teachers encourage them to figure the problem out their selves before they help
Moral development
Criticisms of Piaget
Reliability and validity
Beverly Fargot
24. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Testing
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Negative correlation
Jane Mercer
25. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?
Erikson's contributions
Cognitive reasoning
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Formal operation stage
26. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared
Identity foreclosure
Standardized scores
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Vygotsky beliefs
27. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Decentration
Jane Mercer
4 times - successful suicide
Beverly Fagot
28. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______
Adaptation
Stages
Educational psychology
Standardized testing
29. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Negative correlation
Different types of tests and surverys
Private speech
Language
30. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Validity
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Standardized testing
Moral development
31. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______
Egocentric thinking
Universal
Clinical method
Late maturing boys
32. 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 )
Accommodation
Arthur JEnsen
Standardized testing
Vygotsky beliefs
33. 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
Standardized scores
Clinical method
Accommodation
Concrete-operational stage
34. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Kohlberg
Zone of Proximal Distance
Psychosocial moratorium
35. 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.
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Norm reference test
Standardized scores
Naturalistic observations
36. 9 to about 20 years old ; this group he says follows the rules of society because they are the rules of society ; follow the rules to impress other people (like parents and teachers and to show their respect for authority )
Conventional morality
Psychoscoial moratorium
Zone of Proximal Distance
Invariant
37. What are 5 different types of testing?
Normal curve
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Kohlberg
Identity achievement
38. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Positive correlation
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
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Reliability
39. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Contributions of Piaget
Validity
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Formal operation stage
40. One individual is studied in dept for a long period of time (situations: you would use this - people in war - murder's - serial killers - multiple personalities)(children with skills to advanced for their age)
Individual case study
Beverly Fagot
Identity vs role confusion
Reversibility
41. Factor being manipulated in experimental group
Late maturing boys
Assimilation
Independent variable
Early maturing girls
42. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Industry vs inferiority
Initiative vs guilt
Post conventional morality
Experimental and control
43. 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
Erikson's criticisms
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Identity diffusion
Private speech
44. 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
Dependent variable
Carol Gilligan
Adaptation
45. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do
Individual case study
6 hour retardets
Vygotsky beliefs
Egocentric thinking
46. 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)
Parallel play
Zone of Proximal Distance
1st year ; development of trust
Late maturing boys
47. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
Parpain
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Think at different ages
Clinical method
48. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____
Preconventional morality
Reliability and validity
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Vygotsky
49. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Sensorimotor stage
Percentile score
James Marcia
Correlation
50. What happened in the past
Invariant
Stanine scores
Hartshore and May
Correlation