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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Language
Educational psychology
Lorenz - imprinting
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
2. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Decentration
Psychoscoial moratorium
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
3. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)
Role confusions
Sandra bem
Validity
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
4. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Correlation
Invariant
Pase vs Hannon
Identity foreclosure
5. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Standardized scores
Vygotsky
Conventional morality
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
6. Said no with respect to any native born english speak child ( if you were born in this country and you speak english then it wont be bias against you)
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7. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school
Validity
Jane Mercer
Standard score (derived score)
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
8. 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 )
Stages
Critical period
Emotional intelligence
Conventional morality
9. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
Control variable
Carol Gilligan
Arthur JEnsen
6 hour retardets
10. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
Independent variable
Nature vs nurture
1st year ; development of trust
Decentration
11. 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
Clinical method
Emotional intelligence
Adaptation
Conventional morality
12. 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)
Individual case study
Vygotsky
Jane Mercer
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
13. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Psychoscoial moratorium
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Beverly Fargot
14. 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
Testing
Contributions of Piaget
Dependent variable
Organization and adaptation
15. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
Assimilation and accommodation
Educational psychology
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Scheme
16. Based on the standard deviation
Grade equivalency score
Standard score (derived score)
Moral development
Scheme
17. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Assimilation and accommodation
Cognitive reasoning
Critical period
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
18. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Beverly Fargot
Psychosocial moratorium
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Organization and adaptation
19. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Identity vs role confusion
Early maturing boys
Think at different ages
20. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports
Educational psychology
Grade equivalency score
Erikson's contributions
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
21. Define intelligence
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Cognitive reasoning
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Positive correlation
22. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance
Percentile score
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Hartshore and May
Identity achievement
23. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Criticisms of Piaget
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
Naturalistic observations
Normal curve
24. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills
Control variable
Norm reference test
Individual case study
Intelligence
25. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?
Role confusions
Moral development
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Private speech
26. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one
Control variable
Formal operation stage
Beverly Fagot
Cognitive reasoning
27. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
Pase vs Hannon
Jean Block
Organization and adaptation
Piaget
28. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Erikson's contributions
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Adaptation
Early maturing boys
29. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Early maturing girls
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
James Marcia
30. 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
Reliability and validity
Negative correlation
Emotional intelligence
Piaget
31. 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
Beverly Fagot
Scheme
Hartshore and May
Cognitive reasoning
32. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do
Correlation
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Universal
Egocentric thinking
33. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Initiative vs guilt
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
34. 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
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Universal
Critical period
Sensorimotor stage
35. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression
Erikson's contributions
Dependent variable
Correlation
Learned helplessness
36. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment
Accommodation
Preconventional morality
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Educational psychology
37. 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
Private speech
Positive correlation
Conservation
Erikson's criticisms
38. Behavior being measured in experiment
Dependent variable
Learned helplessness
Piaget
Experimental methods
39. More confident and more outgoing
Stanine scores
Erikson's contributions
Sensorimotor stage
Late maturing girls
40. What happened in the past
Late maturing boys
Naturalistic observations
Conservation
Correlation
41. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Scheme
Late maturing boys
Correlation
Identity foreclosure
42. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay
Moral development
4 times - successful suicide
Naturalistic observations
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
43. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Role confusions
Language
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Piaget
44. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Laray Pee case
Adaptation
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
45. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Piaget
Conservation
Early and late maturation
Jane Mercer
46. 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
Percentile score
Cognitive reasoning
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
Educational psychology
47. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
4 times - successful suicide
Organizations
Beverly Fagot
Pase vs Hannon
48. 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
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Piaget
Naturalistic observation
Pase vs Hannon
49. Ages 2 to 3 ; during this stage kids may develop a sense of independence ; they begin to walk and potty train(learn self control) - 'NO!' Erikson believes this is the child developing a sense of _______(self confidence)
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Standard score (derived score)
Different types of tests and surverys
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
50. 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
Identity achievement
Learned helplessness
Validity
Negative correlation