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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






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






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






5. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores






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






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






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






9. 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






10. 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






11. 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)






12. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






13. More confident and more outgoing






14. 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






15. _____ had a huge impact on






16. 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






17. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount






18. 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






19. 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






20. Behavior being measured in experiment






21. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






22. Define intelligence






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






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






25. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






26. Stages all happen in the same sequence






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






35. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






36. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?






37. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






38. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






39. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






40. 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






41. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






42. What happened in the past






43. The sens of balance is known as ________________






44. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






50. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?