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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.
Lorenz - imprinting
Object permanence
Contributions of Piaget
Zone of Proximal Distance
2. Based on the standard deviation
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Educational psychology
'storm and stress'
Standard score (derived score)
3. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression
Identity foreclosure
Moral development
Learned helplessness
Role confusions
4. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Standardized testing
Identity foreclosure
Erikson's criticisms
5. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are
Standardized testing
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Vygotsky beliefs
Vygotsky
6. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Correlation
Post conventional morality
Role confusions
Normal curve
7. 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
Nature vs nurture
Hartshore and May
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Jane Mercer
8. 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
Industry vs inferiority
Post conventional morality
Organization and adaptation
Beverly Fagot
9. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Experimental and control
Industry vs inferiority
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Contributions of Piaget
10. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Adaptation
Invariant
Hartshore and May
Testing
11. Young kids that talk to themselves
Learned helplessness
Pase vs Hannon
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Late maturing girls
12. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Language
Jane Mercer
Correlation
13. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Organizations
Sensorimotor stage
Different types of tests and surverys
Frequency distribution
14. What happened in the past
Conventional morality
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Correlation
Assimilation and accommodation
15. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Formal operation stage
Conventional morality
Critical period
Early maturing girls
16. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Standard score (derived score)
Educational psychology
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
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
17. At a disadvantage - were popular with their peers and with boys but all things being equal they were likely to suffer from depression more likely to suffer from an eating disorder more likely to become suicidal ; gain weight earlier which is viewed a
Late maturing girls
BITCH test
Decentration
Early maturing girls
18. 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
Naturalistic observation
Preoperational stage
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
James Marcia
19. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Pase vs Hannon
Jean Block
Identity foreclosure
Norm reference test
20. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
4 times - successful suicide
Organization and adaptation
Pase vs Hannon
Identity achievement
21. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Cognitive reasoning
Naturalistic observation
Formal operation stage
Normal curve
22. 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 )
Identity vs role confusion
Jane Mercer
Accommodation
Piaget
23. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Clinical method
Moral development
Beverly Fagot
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
Cognitive reasoning
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Industry vs inferiority
Assimilation
25. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Vygotsky
Naturalistic observations
Critical period
26. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Validity
Identity achievement
Standardized testing
Accommodation
27. 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
Parpain
Positive correlation
Conservation
Carol Gilligan
28. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills
Beverly Fagot
Parpain
Hartshore and May
Intelligence
29. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?
Kohlberg
Jane Mercer
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
30. 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
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Grade equivalency score
Concrete-operational stage
Preoperational stage
31. One of the approaches Piaget used was the _____ - he would pose a problem then he would ask the child a question and based on the answer he got he would ask the child additional questions
Jean Block
Beverly Fargot
Clinical method
Decentration
32. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Emotional intelligence
Concrete-operational stage
Dependent variable
Think at different ages
33. 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
Correlation
Scheme
Preoperational stage
Identity diffusion
34. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities
Psychoscoial moratorium
Zone of Proximal Distance
Parallel play
Learned helplessness
35. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
James Marcia
Jean Block
Identity achievement
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
36. 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
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
Beverly Fagot
Frequency distribution
Standardized scores
37. 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
Erikson's contributions
Vygotsky beliefs
Think at different ages
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
38. 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
Organization and adaptation
Reliability and validity
Formal operation stage
Double blind study
39. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
Kohlberg
Conservation
Parpain
Validity
40. What are 5 different types of testing?
Reversibility
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
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Educational psychology
41. The sens of balance is known as ________________
Learned helplessness
Conservation
Concrete-operational stage
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
42. 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
Identity diffusion
Sandra bem
Adaptation
Concrete-operational stage
43. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Lorenz - imprinting
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Role confusions
Laray Pee case
44. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages
Percentile score
Kohlberg
Initiative vs guilt
Invariant
45. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports
Grade equivalency score
Double blind study
Object permanence
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
46. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
'storm and stress'
Preoperational stage
6 hour retardets
Arthur JEnsen
47. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________
Correlation
Control variable
Psychosocial moratorium
Parallel play
48. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?
Educational psychology
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Double blind study
Correlation
49. 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
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Language
Criticisms of Piaget
Assimilation
50. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Reversibility
Late maturing girls
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
Percentile score