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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
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1. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






7. Refers to a persons ability to monitor their own and other peoples feelings and to use this information to guide their thinking and their actions ; some people say this refers more to a personality trait






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






9. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






11. Are the scores repeatable?






12. 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






13. _____ had a huge impact on






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






15. 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)






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






17. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






18. The sens of balance is known as ________________






19. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes






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






21. What happened in the past






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






23. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






24. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






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






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

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28. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






29. Behavior being measured in experiment






30. 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






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






32. 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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33. 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






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






38. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority

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39. 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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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)






44. 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






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






46. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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