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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






6. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?






7. 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






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






9. What happened in the past






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






11. 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






12. 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






13. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






14. Did research and used moral dellima stories like Kohlberg to compare males to females; discovered women showed more care/concern; men experience more of a feeling of justice being served






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






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






17. 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






18. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






19. Found that parents tend to encourage their daughters to be dependent ; she suggests that parents and teachers encourage them to figure the problem out their selves before they help






20. 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






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






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






23. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world


24. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






25. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






26. 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






27. 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)






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






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


30. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class






31. More confident and more outgoing






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






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


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






35. 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 )






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






37. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)






38. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






40. 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






41. 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






42. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities






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






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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