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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. 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






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






3. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






4. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






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






7. 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)






8. When the experimenter or the subject dont know which group they are in ; helps to avoid experimental bias and certain kinds of treatment that may change subjects behavior






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






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






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

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12. 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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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






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






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

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






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






21. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






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






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






26. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






27. 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






28. Are the scores repeatable?






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






30. 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






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






32. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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






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






42. Based on the standard deviation






43. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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. 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






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






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






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






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






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