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Educational Psychology Basics

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






2. 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






3. 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






4. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






5. 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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6. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






7. 20 and on up if it happens at all; only a small proportion of adults get to this level; these peoplea re able to understand the moral principles behind the rules of society






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






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






10. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






12. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. _____ had a huge impact on






19. 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






20. What happened in the past






21. 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)






22. Define intelligence






23. 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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24. Stages all happen in the same sequence






25. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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






28. Based on the standard deviation






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






30. 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)






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






32. 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.






33. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






34. Young kids that talk to themselves






35. 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






36. 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 )






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






38. 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.






39. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






47. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.






48. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






49. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






50. 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