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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. Based on the standard deviation






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






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

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4. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






6. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






7. _____ had a huge impact on






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






9. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






15. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






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






18. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score






19. Are the scores repeatable?






20. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






22. 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






23. Behavior being measured in experiment






24. 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






25. 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






26. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________






27. 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






28. 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






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. Young kids that talk to themselves






33. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






34. What are the two types of adaptation?






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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 )






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






41. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






42. 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.






43. 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






44. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency






45. 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






46. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes






47. Define intelligence






48. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






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






50. 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