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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. Based on the standard deviation






2. 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






3. 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






4. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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. Are the scores repeatable?






7. 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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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






13. Did research and found that parents tend to treat their boys and girls differently; they became negative when their daughters were overly physical or athletics ( parents were oten not aware of the negative feedback they gave when their daughter was i






14. 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






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






16. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites






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






18. 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)






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






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






21. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






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






24. Young kids that talk to themselves






25. 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






26. 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






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






28. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






29. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






31. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence


32. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






33. 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






34. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen






35. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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 )






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






41. What happened in the past






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






44. Did research and used moral dellima stories like Kohlberg to compare males to females; discovered women showed more care/concern; men experience more of a feeling of justice being served






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






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. 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 )






50. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?