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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






2. 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






3. 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)






4. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






5. 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






6. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do






7. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






8. 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 )






9. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites






10. Said no with respect to any native born english speak child ( if you were born in this country and you speak english then it wont be bias against you)

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11. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






12. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






13. More confident and more outgoing






14. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






15. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________






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






17. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






18. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)






19. One of the approaches Piaget used was the _____ - he would pose a problem then he would ask the child a question and based on the answer he got he would ask the child additional questions






20. 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






21. What are the two types of adaptation?






22. Young kids that talk to themselves






23. 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






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






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






26. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






27. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






29. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______






30. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






31. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained






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






33. 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)






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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. Goes from birth to about the age of 2 years - during this stage schemes are developed primarily through sensory and motor activities ; around the age of 6 to 8 months the child develops an important cognitive milestone object permanence






40. 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)






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






42. When a baby begins to attach to their mother -he did research with ducks. He would take the place of the mother duck during this time of imprinting and the ducks would imprint to him.






43. 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






44. 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






45. Stages all happen in the same sequence






46. The sens of balance is known as ________________






47. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.






48. 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






49. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency






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