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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.
Criticisms of Piaget
Think at different ages
'storm and stress'
Language
2. 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
Zone of Proximal Distance
Beverly Fargot
Experimental methods
Post conventional morality
3. Based on the standard deviation
Accommodation
Grade equivalency score
Parallel play
Standard score (derived score)
4. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Cognitive reasoning
Standardized testing
Sensorimotor stage
5. 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
Percentile score
Industry vs inferiority
Intelligence
Conservation
6. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Decentration
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
7. _____ had a huge impact on
Correlation
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
Piaget
Cognitive reasoning
8. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?
Identity diffusion
Naturalistic observation
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Laray Pee case
9. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________
Jane Mercer
Erikson's criticisms
Role confusions
Sensorimotor stage
10. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Arthur JEnsen
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Egocentric thinking
11. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports
Arthur JEnsen
Accommodation
6 hour retardets
Grade equivalency score
12. 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
Formal operation stage
Naturalistic observation
Identity achievement
Assimilation and accommodation
13. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____
Sensorimotor stage
Erikson's criticisms
Identity diffusion
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
14. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Zone of Proximal Distance
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Parallel play
Invariant
15. 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
Correlation
Jane Mercer
Zone of Proximal Distance
Control variable
16. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal
Testing
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Zone of Proximal Distance
Jane Mercer
17. 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
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Jean Block
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Organizations
18. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
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
6 hour retardets
Object permanence
Identity diffusion
19. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Beverly Fagot
Identity vs role confusion
Control variable
James Marcia
20. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Early and late maturation
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Organizations
21. 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
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Contributions of Piaget
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Double blind study
22. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement
Pase vs Hannon
Kohlberg
Post conventional morality
Naturalistic observations
23. 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
Invariant
Standardized scores
Universal
Private speech
24. Where is this new experience causes a change in an existing scheme ; child may have to modify this scheme (ex: john lenon's child adding a new idea of what a court is )
Object permanence
Late maturing girls
Accommodation
Cognitive reasoning
25. 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
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Adaptation
Criticisms of Piaget
Jean Block
26. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment
Preconventional morality
Early maturing girls
Beverly Fagot
Preoperational stage
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
Assimilation
Late maturing boys
Standardized testing
Vygotsky beliefs
28. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)
Jane Mercer
Sandra bem
Beverly Fagot
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
29. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Frequency distribution
Late maturing girls
Sandra bem
Stanine scores
30. 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
Piaget
Sensorimotor stage
Vygotsky
Pase vs Hannon
31. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
Jane Mercer
4 times - successful suicide
Testing
Identity achievement
32. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Intelligence
Identity achievement
Reversibility
Arthur JEnsen
33. Are the scores repeatable?
Autonomy vs shame and doubt; if the child feelds overly criticized or punished or guilty the child may come out of this stage without autonomy and strong feelings of shame and doubt
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Private speech
Reliability
34. 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
35. What are 5 different types of testing?
Naturalistic observations
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Grade equivalency score
Assimilation and accommodation
36. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do
Kohlberg
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Egocentric thinking
37. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Experimental and control
Decentration
Grade equivalency score
Criticisms of Piaget
38. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Organizations
Initiative vs guilt
Early maturing girls
Scheme
39. 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
Emotional intelligence
Conservation
Initiative vs guilt
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
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)
Individual case study
Normal curve
Identity achievement
Beverly Fagot
41. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Jane Mercer
Adaptation
Sandra bem
Assimilation
42. More confident and more outgoing
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Late maturing girls
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Grade equivalency score
43. What happened in the past
Correlation
Adaptation
Individual case study - naturalistic observation - tests and surverys
Industry vs inferiority
44. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight
Individual case study
Jean Block
Object permanence
Testing
45. 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
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Beverly Fargot
Nature vs nurture
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
46. 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
Post conventional morality
Parallel play
Critical period
Identity achievement
47. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world
48. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________
Psychoscoial moratorium
Correlation
Erikson's criticisms
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
49. Young kids that talk to themselves
Criticisms of Piaget
Invariant
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
BITCH test
50. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Psychosocial moratorium
Criticisms of Piaget
Identity foreclosure
Testing