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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______






3. Define intelligence






4. 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






5. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression






6. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority

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7. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time






8. 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






9. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites






10. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






11. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards






12. 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






13. What are the two types of adaptation?






14. 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






15. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else






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






17. 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






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






19. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






20. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______






21. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






22. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






23. 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






24. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






25. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






27. 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






28. Behavior being measured in experiment






29. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






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






31. 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






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






33. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






34. 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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35. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that






36. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






38. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






39. _____ had a huge impact on






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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 )






43. Young kids that talk to themselves






44. 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






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






46. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. Does it measure what it claims to measure?







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