Test your basic knowledge |

Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. 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






2. 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






3. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight






4. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






5. 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 )






6. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






7. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






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






10. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score






11. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression






12. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






19. 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)






20. Define intelligence






21. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






29. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






30. 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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






33. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______






34. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






36. _____ had a huge impact on






37. 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






38. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school






39. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.






40. 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)






41. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






42. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that