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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. Based on the standard deviation
Concrete-operational stage
Standard score (derived score)
Arthur JEnsen
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
2. 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
Validity
Invariant
Identity vs role confusion
Clinical method
3. 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
Dependent variable
Experimental methods
Norm reference test
Jane Mercer
4. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?
Nature vs nurture
Reliability
Naturalistic observation
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
5. 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
Carol Gilligan
Preconventional morality
Vygotsky beliefs
Adaptation
6. Are the scores repeatable?
Identity foreclosure
Formal operation stage
Lorenz - imprinting
Reliability
7. 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
'storm and stress'
Assimilation
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Concrete-operational stage
8. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Educational psychology
Emotional intelligence
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
9. 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.
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
Positive correlation
Naturalistic observations
Normal curve
10. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Reliability
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Negative correlation
Reversibility
11. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Jane Mercer
Educational psychology
Testing
Independent variable
12. 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
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Zone of Proximal Distance
6 hour retardets
Parpain
13. 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
Beverly Fagot
Identity vs role confusion
Organizations
Preoperational stage
14. 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
Early maturing boys
Parpain
Testing
Preoperational stage
15. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Preoperational stage
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Standardized testing
16. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Positive correlation
Arthur JEnsen
Identity achievement
Zone of Proximal Distance
17. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Naturalistic observation
4 times - successful suicide
Dependent variable
Invariant
18. 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)
Late maturing boys
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
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
Organizations
19. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities
Psychosocial moratorium
Cognitive reasoning
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Psychoscoial moratorium
20. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Percentile score
Correlation
Organizations
Educational psychology
21. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?
Validity
Double blind study
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
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
22. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________
Object permanence
BITCH test
Psychoscoial moratorium
Criticisms of Piaget
23. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Conservation
Think at different ages
Stanine scores
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
24. Young kids that talk to themselves
Frequency distribution
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Educational psychology
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
25. 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
Identity vs role confusion
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Standard score (derived score)
Early maturing girls
26. Found that parents tend to encourage their daughters to be dependent ; she suggests that parents and teachers encourage them to figure the problem out their selves before they help
Beverly Fargot
Early maturing boys
Kohlberg
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
27. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
Percentile score
Early and late maturation
1st year ; development of trust
Initiative vs guilt
28. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Positive correlation
Preoperational stage
Correlation
Late maturing boys
29. Stages all happen in the same sequence
Object permanence
Invariant
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
Testing
30. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
Formal operation stage
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Laray Pee case
Identity diffusion
31. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence
32. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Experimental methods
Norm reference test
6 hour retardets
Decentration
33. 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
Preoperational stage
Clinical method
James Marcia
Criterion (criteria) reference test
34. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Private speech
Critical period
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Identity vs role confusion
35. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
Erikson's criticisms
Hartshore and May
Reliability and validity
Parpain
36. 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
Vygotsky
Hartshore and May
Critical period
Criticisms of Piaget
37. 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
4 times - successful suicide
Dependent variable
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Preoperational stage
38. 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
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Naturalistic observation
Identity achievement
Different types of tests and surverys
39. 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 )
Correlation
Conventional morality
Conservation
Independent variable
40. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Organizations
Vygotsky beliefs
Educational psychology
Organization and adaptation
41. What happened in the past
Double blind study
Correlation
Validity
Experimental and control
42. 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
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Contributions of Piaget
Arthur JEnsen
Cognitive reasoning
43. 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
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Vygotsky beliefs
Private speech
44. 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
Organization and adaptation
Adaptation
Zone of Proximal Distance
Carol Gilligan
45. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
Pase vs Hannon
Emotional intelligence
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Negative correlation
46. 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
Psychosocial moratorium
Dependent variable
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Conservation
47. 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
Contributions of Piaget
Hartshore and May
Identity foreclosure
Piaget
48. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Standard score (derived score)
Invariant
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Experimental and control
49. 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 )
Accommodation
Independent variable
Jane Mercer
Stages
50. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Post conventional morality
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Private speech