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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






3. _____ had a huge impact on






4. 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






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






6. 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






7. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. 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 )






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


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


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






21. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. Stages all happen in the same sequence






26. Based on the standard deviation






27. 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






28. What happened in the past






29. 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


30. 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






31. 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)






32. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________






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






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






36. 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)


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






38. More confident and more outgoing






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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.






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






48. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






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