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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






2. The sens of balance is known as ________________






3. Stages all happen in the same sequence






4. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






5. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities






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






7. 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






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






9. When the experimenter or the subject dont know which group they are in ; helps to avoid experimental bias and certain kinds of treatment that may change subjects behavior






10. 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






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






12. 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 )






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






14. 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






15. Based on the standard deviation






16. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






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






18. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






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






20. 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)






21. 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






22. 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 )






23. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






24. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






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






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






27. 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


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






29. 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






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






31. 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)






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






33. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






34. 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






35. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






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






38. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






39. _____ had a huge impact on






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






49. 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






50. 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.