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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






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






4. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






5. 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)






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

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7. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






8. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






9. 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)

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






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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






17. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






24. What happened in the past






25. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?






30. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






32. More confident and more outgoing






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

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34. 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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Based on the standard deviation






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






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






41. 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






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






43. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






50. 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.