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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






3. Young kids that talk to themselves






4. 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






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






6. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






7. 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)






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






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






10. 1. there was no proof 2. his emphasis on identity crisis may have been from his own experiences in his life and he may have incorporated into a theory for everyone

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11. What are the two types of adaptation?






12. What happened in the past






13. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






14. 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






15. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






16. 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 )






17. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






18. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________






19. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






20. 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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






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. 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)






30. _____ had a huge impact on






31. 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






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






33. 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






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






35. 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






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






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






39. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






40. The sens of balance is known as ________________






41. Define intelligence






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. Found that from an early age boys are encouraged to be competitive - to achieve - and to control the expression of their feelings; girls at an early age are encouraged to develop close relationhips - talk about their troubles - and show affection and






48. Based on the standard deviation






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






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