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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Based on the standard deviation






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






9. 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






10. 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






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






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






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






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






15. 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 )






16. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






17. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






19. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






20. 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)






21. 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






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






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






24. 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






25. 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






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






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






28. Stages all happen in the same sequence






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






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






35. _____ had a huge impact on






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






37. What are 5 different types of testing?






38. 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






39. 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






40. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






41. Define intelligence






42. Behavior being measured in experiment






43. 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






44. 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)






45. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






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






49. More confident and more outgoing






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