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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






2. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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


4. 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






5. 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)






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


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






8. Based on the standard deviation






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






10. 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






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






12. Said alot of kids were able to describe what they were supposed to do in hypothetial situation but when you place them in a real life situation they often engage in the opposite behavior ; final observation: kids know the rules - they just dont follo






13. 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






14. Stages all happen in the same sequence






15. New experiences that fit an existing scheme ; a child sees a ew type of ball and realizes it a ball - different from his ball but understands its still a ball






16. 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.






17. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






18. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






19. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class






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






21. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






22. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






23. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






24. Behavior being measured in experiment






25. 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






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






27. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






29. 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






30. More confident and more outgoing






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






32. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






38. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






41. _____ had a huge impact on






42. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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