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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?






2. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






4. 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.






5. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






7. 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






8. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






10. What happened in the past






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






18. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






20. 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)






21. 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






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. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






38. 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






39. _____ had a huge impact on






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






41. Are the scores repeatable?






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. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






44. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






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






47. Compare an individuals performance to that of his or her peers ; 1. they are objective 2. have predetermined answers 3. compare a student's performance to the performance of others 4. the performance is evaluated in terms of norms






48. 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






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






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