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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time






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






4. 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






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






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






7. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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






11. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






12. Young kids that talk to themselves






13. 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






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






15. What happened in the past






16. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else






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






18. Sometimes given on reports ; were developed back in WWII by air force psychologists and they were used to screen men for different kinds of programs






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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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29. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






30. 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






31. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______






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






33. Are the scores repeatable?






34. 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






35. Describing relationships between two factors is a correlation: a statistical description of how closely two variables are related. They can range from -1.00 to +1.00.






36. Stages all happen in the same sequence






37. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






38. These individuals often times have more feelings of inferiority - not as popular as the ..... typically - more likely to engage in attention getting behavior (silly goofy stuff)






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






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






41. 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






42. By the age of 9 _________ disappears because they reach the cognitive level where this form of speech does not need to guide their behavior or thinking any more






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






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






45. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________






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






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






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






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






50. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal