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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. Young kids that talk to themselves






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

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3. 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






4. 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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






22. More confident and more outgoing






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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.






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






39. What are 5 different types of testing?






40. 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






41. _____ had a huge impact on






42. 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 )






43. 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






44. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






46. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






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






49. 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






50. 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