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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. One individual is studied in dept for a long period of time (situations: you would use this - people in war - murder's - serial killers - multiple personalities)(children with skills to advanced for their age)






6. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression






7. 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.






8. Define intelligence






9. Age 6 to 11 years; during this stage the child begins school; if they are sucsessful in school they develop a sense of accomplishment ; these feelings may stay with a child throughout their entire life






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






11. Piaget believes a child's moral reasoning is tied to their ________; because the 6 year old child has not mastered decentration yet so he can only focus on 1 thing at a time and he focused on the size of the stain so the child with the bigger stain w






12. Based on the standard deviation






13. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






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






16. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






18. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






19. 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 )






20. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






21. 9 to about 20 years old ; this group he says follows the rules of society because they are the rules of society ; follow the rules to impress other people (like parents and teachers and to show their respect for authority )






22. 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.






23. More confident and more outgoing






24. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






32. Said no with respect to any native born english speak child ( if you were born in this country and you speak english then it wont be bias against you)

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






34. 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






35. 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)






36. What are the two types of adaptation?






37. Age of 12 to 15 years; during this stage the child will be going through adolescence and will develop a sense of ____ or _____ where they arent really sure how to behave or how to be accepted by other or who they are






38. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






40. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency






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






42. 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






43. _____ had a huge impact on






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






45. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






46. 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






47. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






48. The sens of balance is known as ________________






49. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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