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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






4. 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






5. 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






6. 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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. What happened in the past






14. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






15. 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






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






17. 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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18. 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






19. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






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






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






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






24. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






25. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 2 to about 7 years; during this stage language develops at a rapid rate - the child no longer thinks as images but in words; increase in terms of language but the way the child thinks is not yet logical






31. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






33. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






34. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






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






37. Behavior being measured in experiment






38. 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






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






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






41. 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)






42. 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)






43. 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.






44. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






46. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






48. 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






49. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that






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







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