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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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)






2. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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)






8. Behavior being measured in experiment






9. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






10. 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






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






12. 9 to about 20 years old ; this group he says follows the rules of society because they are the rules of society ; follow the rules to impress other people (like parents and teachers and to show their respect for authority )






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. What happened in the past






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






22. 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)






23. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






25. _____ had a huge impact on






26. 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






27. 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.






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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. Said alot of kids were able to describe what they were supposed to do in hypothetial situation but when you place them in a real life situation they often engage in the opposite behavior ; final observation: kids know the rules - they just dont follo






35. 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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36. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment






37. More confident and more outgoing






38. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






39. 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






40. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






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






42. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






44. 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






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






48. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






50. Are the scores repeatable?