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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • 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. 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






2. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






4. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






5. 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)


6. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






8. 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






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






10. 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 )






11. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






12. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence


18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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)






26. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






27. By the age of 9 _________ disappears because they reach the cognitive level where this form of speech does not need to guide their behavior or thinking any more






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






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. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount






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


32. 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






33. 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






34. Are the scores repeatable?






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






36. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities






37. 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






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






39. 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.






40. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?






41. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






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






43. 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






44. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






46. What happened in the past






47. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






48. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






49. 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






50. 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