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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. 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






2. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






3. 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






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






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






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






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






8. 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






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






10. Define intelligence






11. 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






12. Young kids that talk to themselves






13. 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






14. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained






15. 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






16. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






18. 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






19. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






20. 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






21. What are the two types of adaptation?






22. 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






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






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






25. _____ had a huge impact on






26. 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






27. Sometimes given on reports ; were developed back in WWII by air force psychologists and they were used to screen men for different kinds of programs






28. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






29. 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






30. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight






31. 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.






32. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






33. 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






34. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






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






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






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






38. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school






39. Based on the standard deviation






40. 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






41. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






42. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________






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






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






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






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






47. 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)






48. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






49. Believes kids benefit more when they interact with kids people who are more skilled than they are; believes that language is critical for cognitive development to occur






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