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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Stages
Sensorimotor stage
Educational psychology
Experimental methods
2. 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)
Correlation
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
Sandra bem
Late maturing boys
3. 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
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
6 hour retardets
Experimental methods
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
4. 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)
Private speech
Preoperational stage
Individual case study
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
5. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Standardized scores
Correlation
Private speech
Concrete-operational stage
6. 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
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Concrete-operational stage
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Contributions of Piaget
7. 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.
Naturalistic observations
Industry vs inferiority
Beverly Fargot
Educational psychology
8. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?
Invariant
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Jane Mercer
Object permanence
9. 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
Jean Block
Conventional morality
Identity diffusion
Contributions of Piaget
10. 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
Laray Pee case
Industry vs inferiority
Double blind study
Nature vs nurture
11. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Organization and adaptation
Contributions of Piaget
Early maturing girls
Dependent variable
12. What are the two types of adaptation?
Nature vs nurture
Private speech
Assimilation and accommodation
Educational psychology
13. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Validity
1st year ; development of trust
Educational psychology
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
14. Define intelligence
Vygotsky beliefs
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
4 times - successful suicide
Jane Mercer
15. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal
Jane Mercer
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
BITCH test
Late maturing girls
16. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________
Early and late maturation
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
BITCH test
Independent variable
17. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Identity vs role confusion
Invariant
Identity foreclosure
Adaptation
18. 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
Preoperational stage
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Early and late maturation
Beverly Fargot
19. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Formal operation stage
Stages
Piaget
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
20. 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
Sensorimotor stage
Norm reference test
Private speech
Conventional morality
21. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Psychosocial moratorium
Invariant
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
22. 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
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Moral development
Industry vs inferiority
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
23. 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
Experimental methods
Post conventional morality
Beverly Fagot
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
24. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
Early maturing girls
Normal curve
Independent variable
Pase vs Hannon
25. 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
Kohlberg
Sandra bem
Invariant
Zone of Proximal Distance
26. 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
Conventional morality
Cognitive reasoning
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
Stanine scores
27. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Adaptation
Parpain
Frequency distribution
Arthur JEnsen
28. 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
Reliability
Early maturing boys
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
Standard score (derived score)
29. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development
Language
Invariant
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
30. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Standard score (derived score)
Think at different ages
Criterion (criteria) reference test
6 hour retardets
31. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Post conventional morality
Industry vs inferiority
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
Preoperational stage
32. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do
Egocentric thinking
Stanine scores
Identity foreclosure
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
33. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Zone of Proximal Distance
Negative correlation
Correlation
4 times - successful suicide
34. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Initiative vs guilt
Standardized testing
Criticisms of Piaget
35. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Testing
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
Naturalistic observation
Assimilation and accommodation
36. The sens of balance is known as ________________
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Assimilation and accommodation
Lorenz - imprinting
37. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Adaptation
Standardized scores
Erikson's contributions
Role confusions
38. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Industry vs inferiority
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Cognitive reasoning
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
39. 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
Late maturing girls
Stanine scores
Adaptation
Nature vs nurture
40. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
Correlation
Identity diffusion
BITCH test
Individual case study
41. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Assimilation
Laray Pee case
Adaptation
Parpain
42. 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
Standardized testing
Standardized scores
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Normal curve
43. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Contributions of Piaget
Identity foreclosure
Accommodation
Adaptation
44. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Critical period
Egocentric thinking
Scheme
Moral development
45. Refers to a persons ability to monitor their own and other peoples feelings and to use this information to guide their thinking and their actions ; some people say this refers more to a personality trait
Emotional intelligence
Reliability and validity
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
Organization and adaptation
46. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Independent variable
6 hour retardets
Late maturing girls
Parallel play
47. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
Testing
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Moral development
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
48. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
6 hour retardets
Experimental and control
Norm reference test
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
49. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
Individual case study
Validity
1st year ; development of trust
Beverly Fargot
50. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Jane Mercer
Early and late maturation
Standard score (derived score)
Vygotsky beliefs