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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one






7. 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






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






9. Young kids that talk to themselves






10. One individual is studied in dept for a long period of time (situations: you would use this - people in war - murder's - serial killers - multiple personalities)(children with skills to advanced for their age)






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






22. _____ had a huge impact on






23. About 7 to 11 years old; this stage is a major turning point in a child's cognitive development ; child's thinking begins to resemble that of an adult more than that of a child ; child is able to utilize conservation - decentration - and reversibilit






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






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. 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






27. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






28. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






29. 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






30. Are the scores repeatable?






31. Define intelligence






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






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






34. What happened in the past






35. 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






36. What are the two types of adaptation?






37. When a baby begins to attach to their mother -he did research with ducks. He would take the place of the mother duck during this time of imprinting and the ducks would imprint to him.






38. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world

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39. 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






40. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






47. 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






48. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






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