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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?






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






3. What happened in the past






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. Define intelligence






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






10. 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






11. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






13. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






14. 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.






15. Sometimes given on reports ; were developed back in WWII by air force psychologists and they were used to screen men for different kinds of programs






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






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






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






22. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one






23. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






24. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes






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






26. 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






27. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






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






30. 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






31. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






33. More confident and more outgoing






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






38. 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






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






40. 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






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

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42. 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






43. 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






44. Based on the standard deviation






45. 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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46. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






47. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






48. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment






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






50. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____