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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Contributions of Piaget
Standardized testing
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
2. 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.
Late maturing boys
Role confusions
Naturalistic observations
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
3. By the age of 9 _________ disappears because they reach the cognitive level where this form of speech does not need to guide their behavior or thinking any more
Private speech
James Marcia
Frequency distribution
Decentration
4. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development
Language
Early maturing girls
Critical period
Parallel play
5. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Identity foreclosure
Assimilation
Erikson's contributions
Parallel play
6. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Invariant
Independent variable
Early maturing girls
Assimilation and accommodation
7. Goes from birth to about the age of 2 years - during this stage schemes are developed primarily through sensory and motor activities ; around the age of 6 to 8 months the child develops an important cognitive milestone object permanence
Correlation
Sensorimotor stage
Object permanence
Piaget
8. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?
Cognitive reasoning
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Language
Sandra bem
9. 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.
Invariant
Lorenz - imprinting
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
1st year ; development of trust
10. What happened in the past
Correlation
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Language
Reliability
11. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Laray Pee case
Validity
12. 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
Post conventional morality
Validity
Emotional intelligence
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
13. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Psychosocial moratorium
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Universal
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
14. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
Sampling(represents society as a whole - if you dont have a sample then the experiment will be messed up) - control(keep all the variables the same except the independent) - objectivity(some believe some dont) - publication(peer journals) - replicati
Educational psychology
Naturalistic observations
'storm and stress'
15. Stages all happen in the same sequence
Invariant
Vygotsky beliefs
Preoperational stage
Erikson's contributions
16. 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
Formal operation stage
Contributions of Piaget
Naturalistic observations
Normal curve
17. 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
Vygotsky
Nature vs nurture
Correlation
Early and late maturation
18. 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
Cognitive reasoning
Norm reference test
Erikson's criticisms
Normal curve
19. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)
Standardized scores
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Sandra bem
Scheme
20. 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
Experimental and control
Preconventional morality
Dependent variable
Criterion (criteria) reference test
21. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Educational psychology
Clinical method
Testing
Intelligence
22. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Dependent variable
Naturalistic observation
4 times - successful suicide
Role confusions
23. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Identity vs role confusion
Experimental methods
Beverly Fargot
Educational psychology
24. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Piaget
Stanine scores
James Marcia
Experimental and control
25. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
Scheme
Invariant
Arthur JEnsen
Organizations
26. Found that from an early age boys are encouraged to be competitive - to achieve - and to control the expression of their feelings; girls at an early age are encouraged to develop close relationhips - talk about their troubles - and show affection and
Correlation
Carol Gilligan
Jean Block
Arthur JEnsen
27. 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
Different types of tests and surverys
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Early maturing boys
Conservation
28. 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
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Naturalistic observations
Reliability
Criticisms of Piaget
29. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Role confusions
Parallel play
Reversibility
Frequency distribution
30. 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
Standardized testing
Adaptation
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Contributions of Piaget
31. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal
Jane Mercer
Formal operation stage
Grade equivalency score
Normal curve
32. 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
Zone of Proximal Distance
'storm and stress'
Preconventional morality
Concrete-operational stage
33. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Conservation
Stanine scores
Adaptation
Identity diffusion
34. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Stanine scores
Frequency distribution
Vygotsky beliefs
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
35. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Frequency distribution
Object permanence
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
36. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Percentile score
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Parpain
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
37. 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
Cognitive reasoning
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Concrete-operational stage
Universal
38. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____
Reliability and validity
Role confusions
Criticisms of Piaget
Double blind study
39. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Pase vs Hannon
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Testing
Formal operation stage
40. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Early and late maturation
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Criterion (criteria) reference test
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
41. 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
Early maturing boys
Identity achievement
Identity diffusion
4 times - successful suicide
42. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
Organizations
Sandra bem
Psychoscoial moratorium
Pase vs Hannon
43. 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)
Carol Gilligan
Individual case study
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
6 hour retardets
44. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
Late maturing girls
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Preconventional morality
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
45. 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
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Stanine scores
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
46. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Validity
Invariant
Reliability and validity
47. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school
Psychologists have trouble agreeing on what intelligence is and any type of test including IQ cannot test intelligence it only shows a sample of behavior
Scheme
Organization and adaptation
Jane Mercer
48. 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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49. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Organizations
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
4 times - successful suicide
Naturalistic observations
50. 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
Initiative vs guilt
Cognitive reasoning
Laray Pee case
Formal operation stage