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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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)






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






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






4. What happened in the past






5. 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






6. 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






7. More confident and more outgoing






8. 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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9. 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)






10. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






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






13. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






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






16. 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






17. Behavior being measured in experiment






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. 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 )






20. 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






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






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






23. 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






24. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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






33. Are the scores repeatable?






34. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






35. 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






36. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school






37. 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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






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






42. 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






43. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






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






46. Stages all happen in the same sequence






47. 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






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






49. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class






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