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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






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






4. 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






5. Behavior being measured in experiment






6. 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.






7. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






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






9. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






10. Young kids that talk to themselves






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






12. 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






13. 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






14. Define intelligence






15. 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






16. What happened in the past






17. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






22. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






24. Piaget also believes the cognitive stages children go through are _______






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






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






27. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






28. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






29. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






30. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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 )






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






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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)






48. 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






49. 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






50. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes







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