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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Beverly Fagot
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Lorenz - imprinting
Validity
2. 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
Adaptation
Contributions of Piaget
Hartshore and May
Adaptation
3. 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
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Vygotsky
Egocentric thinking
Norm reference test
4. 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
Parallel play
Grade equivalency score
Concrete-operational stage
Organizations
5. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Reliability
Individual case study
Stanine scores
Educational psychology
6. What are 5 different types of testing?
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Conventional morality
Experimental methods
Early and late maturation
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
Vygotsky beliefs
Lorenz - imprinting
Identity achievement
Early and late maturation
8. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time
Decentration
Percentile score
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
1st year ; development of trust
9. 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
Erikson's contributions
Parallel play
Organizations
Conservation
10. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Private speech
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
Reversibility
Reliability
11. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________
Zone of Proximal Distance
BITCH test
Formal operation stage
Standardized scores
12. 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)
Testing
Individual case study
Educational psychology
James Marcia
13. 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
Grade equivalency score
Kohlberg
Emotional intelligence
Post conventional morality
14. 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
Post conventional morality
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
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
15. 1. some people feel as though he may have underestimated the ability of kids 2. he talked about there being 4 distinct stages of development 3. some critics focused too much on what children couldnt do rather than what they could do 4. some think t
Nature vs nurture
Criticisms of Piaget
Accommodation
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
16. 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
Role confusions
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Early maturing boys
Zone of Proximal Distance
17. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance
Jean Block
Vygotsky beliefs
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Reliability
18. _____ had a huge impact on
Naturalistic observation
Accommodation
Piaget
Negative correlation
19. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do
Egocentric thinking
Preconventional morality
Early maturing boys
Validity
20. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Reliability
Conservation
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
Industry vs inferiority
21. 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
Emotional intelligence
Identity achievement
Moral development
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
22. The sens of balance is known as ________________
Erikson's criticisms
Post conventional morality
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
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
23. 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
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Early maturing girls
Nature vs nurture
Private speech
24. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Organizations
Jean Block
Accommodation
Organization and adaptation
25. Relationship between two variables in which the high value of one is associated with a low value of the other; example - outside temperature and weight of clothes people wear
Preoperational stage
Negative correlation
Private speech
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
26. What happened in the past
Correlation
Identity achievement
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Dependent variable
27. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______
4 times - successful suicide
6 hour retardets
Universal
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
28. 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.
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Learned helplessness
Naturalistic observations
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
29. 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
Piaget
Parallel play
Testing
Sensorimotor stage
30. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Dependent variable
Invariant
Think at different ages
31. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence
32. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Pase vs Hannon
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Piaget
Validity
33. The purpose of a ____ is to separate the performance of individuals so that there is a distribution of scores from the highest to the lowest score
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 ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Stages
Hartshore and May
34. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________
Psychosocial moratorium
Initiative vs guilt
Laray Pee case
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
35. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Laray Pee case
Preoperational stage
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
36. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Dependent variable
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Industry vs inferiority
Accommodation
37. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Post conventional morality
Standardized testing
Control variable
Positive correlation
38. Stages all happen in the same sequence
Zone of Proximal Distance
Norm reference test
Invariant
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
39. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Critical period
4 times - successful suicide
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
40. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are
Validity
Vygotsky
Sandra bem
Assimilation
41. More confident and more outgoing
Conservation
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Late maturing girls
Control variable
42. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Assimilation and accommodation
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Role confusions
Formal operation stage
43. 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
Lorenz - imprinting
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Identity achievement
Correlation
44. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression
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
Control variable
Learned helplessness
Reliability
45. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
'storm and stress'
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Invariant
Scheme
46. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Frequency distribution
Adaptation
Validity
Percentile score
47. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Reliability
Percentile score
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
48. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Preconventional morality
Universal
James Marcia
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
49. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
6 hour retardets
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Early and late maturation
Parallel play
50. 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
4 times - successful suicide
Adaptation
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Hartshore and May