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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






3. 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






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






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






6. 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)






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






8. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






10. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






11. 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






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






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






15. About 7 to 11 years old; this stage is a major turning point in a child's cognitive development ; child's thinking begins to resemble that of an adult more than that of a child ; child is able to utilize conservation - decentration - and reversibilit






16. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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

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18. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






19. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






21. 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






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. 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






24. 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






25. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






27. 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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28. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






29. 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






30. 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






31. 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






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

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






34. 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






35. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency






36. 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






37. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






38. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






48. More confident and more outgoing






49. Young kids that talk to themselves






50. 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