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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Industry vs inferiority
Early maturing boys
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Control variable
2. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Moral development
Educational psychology
Arthur JEnsen
Experimental methods
3. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Reversibility
James Marcia
Think at different ages
Naturalistic observation
4. 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
Jane Mercer
Contributions of Piaget
Beverly Fagot
Erikson's contributions
5. Behavior being measured in experiment
Reliability
Identity diffusion
Dependent variable
Preoperational stage
6. 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.
Initiative vs guilt
Lorenz - imprinting
Control variable
Early maturing boys
7. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development
Norm reference test
Language
Clinical method
Zone of Proximal Distance
8. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Identity vs role confusion
4 times - successful suicide
Grade equivalency score
Sensorimotor stage
9. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Standard score (derived score)
Critical period
Experimental methods
Individual case study
10. Young kids that talk to themselves
Correlation
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Stanine scores
11. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Zone of Proximal Distance
Learned helplessness
Think at different ages
Normal curve
12. 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
Standard score (derived score)
Organizations
Reversibility
Adaptation
13. 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
Contributions of Piaget
Lorenz - imprinting
James Marcia
Independent variable
14. Define intelligence
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Different types of tests and surverys
15. At a disadvantage - were popular with their peers and with boys but all things being equal they were likely to suffer from depression more likely to suffer from an eating disorder more likely to become suicidal ; gain weight earlier which is viewed a
Early maturing girls
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Validity
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
16. What happened in the past
Correlation
Reversibility
Educational psychology
Egocentric thinking
17. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Assimilation
Early and late maturation
'storm and stress'
18. 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
Late maturing boys
Negative correlation
Identity achievement
Universal
19. 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
Dependent variable
Clinical method
Carol Gilligan
Formal operation stage
20. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Pase vs Hannon
Positive correlation
Normal curve
Standard score (derived score)
21. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Assimilation
Standard score (derived score)
Educational psychology
Identity diffusion
22. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
Scheme
Erikson's contributions
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Standardized scores
23. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
James Marcia
Preoperational stage
Double blind study
Independent variable
24. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______
'storm and stress'
Laray Pee case
Beverly Fagot
Universal
25. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Erikson's criticisms
Adaptation
Testing
Hartshore and May
26. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Laray Pee case
Assimilation
4 times - successful suicide
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
27. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills
Intelligence
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Dependent variable
Reliability
28. Factor being manipulated in experimental group
Positive correlation
Independent variable
Preoperational stage
Erikson's contributions
29. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
Critical period
Normal curve
Concrete-operational stage
Parpain
30. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Reliability and validity
'storm and stress'
Early maturing girls
31. 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
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Beverly Fargot
Jane Mercer
Identity vs role confusion
32. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
Educational psychology
Arthur JEnsen
Private speech
Stages
33. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Erikson's contributions
Invariant
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Grade equivalency score
34. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Organization and adaptation
Conservation
Beverly Fagot
35. 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
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Cognitive reasoning
Vygotsky
Universal
36. Sometimes given on reports ; were developed back in WWII by air force psychologists and they were used to screen men for different kinds of programs
Moral development
'storm and stress'
Pase vs Hannon
Stanine scores
37. 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 )
Moral development
Conventional morality
Accommodation
Assimilation
38. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________
BITCH test
Early maturing girls
Lorenz - imprinting
Jane Mercer
39. New experiences that fit an existing scheme ; a child sees a ew type of ball and realizes it a ball - different from his ball but understands its still a ball
Assimilation
Sandra bem
Erikson's criticisms
Identity foreclosure
40. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do
Psychoscoial moratorium
Assimilation
Stanine scores
Egocentric thinking
41. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Late maturing boys
Reversibility
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Universal
42. 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
Organizations
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Naturalistic observation
Assimilation and accommodation
43. 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
Role confusions
Preoperational stage
Formal operation stage
Laray Pee case
44. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Stages
Parallel play
Emotional intelligence
Grade equivalency score
45. 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
Testing
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Hartshore and May
Industry vs inferiority
46. 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
Norm reference test
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Reliability and validity
Criterion (criteria) reference test
47. 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)
Erikson's contributions
Late maturing boys
Hartshore and May
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
48. 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
Positive correlation
Adaptation
4 times - successful suicide
Preoperational stage
49. 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
Piaget
Role confusions
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Nature vs nurture
50. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
Conservation
Control variable
Initiative vs guilt
6 hour retardets
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