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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. 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)






3. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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

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






6. 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






7. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






9. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






11. 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.






12. Behavior being measured in experiment






13. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






14. 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






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






16. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






18. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






20. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






21. The sens of balance is known as ________________






22. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






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






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






26. 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






27. Are the scores repeatable?






28. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen






29. 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






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

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






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






33. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained






34. 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






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






36. By the age of 9 _________ disappears because they reach the cognitive level where this form of speech does not need to guide their behavior or thinking any more






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






38. 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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39. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount






40. Based on the standard deviation






41. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






42. 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






43. 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






44. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






46. 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)






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. What happened in the past







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