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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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 )






2. 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.






3. 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






4. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






5. 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






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






7. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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

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17. _____ had a huge impact on






18. 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






19. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






20. There are adolescents have made a career choice - and are pursuing this choice but this choice is tentative and they can be thrown back into crisis at any time






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






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






23. 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






24. What are 5 different types of testing?






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______






31. Are the scores repeatable?






32. 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






33. Define intelligence






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






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






36. What happened in the past






37. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






38. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






39. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






40. 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






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






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






44. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






45. 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






46. 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






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






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. 9 to about 20 years old ; this group he says follows the rules of society because they are the rules of society ; follow the rules to impress other people (like parents and teachers and to show their respect for authority )






50. 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