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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. 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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






11. 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






12. A tendency we all have to adapt or adjust to our environment; the child uses intellectual processes to transform them so they can use them for new experiences






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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






19. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






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






22. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






23. Define intelligence






24. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






25. Are the scores repeatable?






26. 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






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






28. What are 5 different types of testing?






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

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30. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






36. Believes kids benefit more when they interact with kids people who are more skilled than they are; believes that language is critical for cognitive development to occur






37. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






38. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






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

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41. What happened in the past






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






43. 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






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






45. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world

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46. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






48. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






49. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount






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






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