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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






2. 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






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






4. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






5. 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






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






7. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






8. 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






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






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






11. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time






12. 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

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13. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






14. 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






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






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






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






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






19. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






20. 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






21. _____ had a huge impact on






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






23. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






24. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight






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






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






27. The sens of balance is known as ________________






28. Are the scores repeatable?






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

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






31. 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






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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Young kids that talk to themselves






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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)






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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






47. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






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






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






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