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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






2. 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






3. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






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






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






6. _____ had a huge impact on






7. What are the two types of adaptation?






8. 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






9. Behavior being measured in experiment






10. Based on the standard deviation






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. What are 5 different types of testing?






19. 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)






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






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






25. 1. there was no proof 2. his emphasis on identity crisis may have been from his own experiences in his life and he may have incorporated into a theory for everyone

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






27. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






28. Refers to a persons ability to monitor their own and other peoples feelings and to use this information to guide their thinking and their actions ; some people say this refers more to a personality trait






29. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






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






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






33. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )






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






35. What happened in the past






36. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






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






39. 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






40. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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. 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






43. 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.






44. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






45. 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






46. 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






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






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






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






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