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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities






2. Said alot of kids were able to describe what they were supposed to do in hypothetial situation but when you place them in a real life situation they often engage in the opposite behavior ; final observation: kids know the rules - they just dont follo






3. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






4. 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






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






6. Behavior being measured in experiment






7. They were more self confident - had higher self esteem - more likely to be leaders and more likely to receive favorable comments from adults ; this happens because the look ... and are better athletes; the only bad thing is that they are more likely






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






9. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one






10. 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






11. Are the scores repeatable?






12. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






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






15. Define intelligence






16. 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






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






18. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






19. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






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






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






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






24. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






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






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






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






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






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

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30. 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






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






32. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________






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






34. Did research and found that parents tend to treat their boys and girls differently; they became negative when their daughters were overly physical or athletics ( parents were oten not aware of the negative feedback they gave when their daughter was i






35. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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






40. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






41. Said no with respect to any native born english speak child ( if you were born in this country and you speak english then it wont be bias against you)

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42. 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






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






44. 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






45. 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






46. Based on the standard deviation






47. More confident and more outgoing






48. 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






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






50. 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