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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.






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






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






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






5. Stages all happen in the same sequence






6. Are the scores repeatable?






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






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

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






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






11. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






12. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






13. 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






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






15. Ages 2 to 3 ; during this stage kids may develop a sense of independence ; they begin to walk and potty train(learn self control) - 'NO!' Erikson believes this is the child developing a sense of _______(self confidence)






16. 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






17. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






18. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one






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






20. 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






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






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






23. Based on the child themselves - if they reach a certain level they pass ( ex: praxis and leap test) ; measures how well a student has achieved specific objectives






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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. 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






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






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






30. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






32. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






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






35. One of the approaches Piaget used was the _____ - he would pose a problem then he would ask the child a question and based on the answer he got he would ask the child additional questions






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






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






38. 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






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






40. 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.






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






42. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






44. What happened in the past






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. 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)






50. Being able to realize that properties can stay the same in spite of a change in appearance ; what he found from his study was children under the age of 6 said that there was more water in beaker 1 than beaker 3 (even though it was the same amount of