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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






3. 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






4. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. 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)






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






12. 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






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






15. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






16. Define intelligence






17. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. Young kids that talk to themselves






24. _____ had a huge impact on






25. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






26. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






27. 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






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

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29. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






30. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






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






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






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






35. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






36. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen






37. Based on the standard deviation






38. 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.






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






40. 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)






41. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression






42. 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)






43. 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






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






45. 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






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






47. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






49. 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






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







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