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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






3. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






5. 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.






6. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. Young kids that talk to themselves






12. 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






13. 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






14. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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. 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






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






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






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






20. 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






21. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






23. Did research and used moral dellima stories like Kohlberg to compare males to females; discovered women showed more care/concern; men experience more of a feeling of justice being served






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






25. 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






26. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






28. 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






29. 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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30. 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






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






32. 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






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






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






35. 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






36. About 7 to 11 years old; this stage is a major turning point in a child's cognitive development ; child's thinking begins to resemble that of an adult more than that of a child ; child is able to utilize conservation - decentration - and reversibilit






37. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






38. What are the two types of adaptation?






39. What happened in the past






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






41. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






49. 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)






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