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Educational Psychology Basics

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1. Are the scores repeatable?






2. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






3. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






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






5. 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






6. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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






12. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






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






15. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained






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

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17. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






18. 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






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






20. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






22. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?






23. At a disadvantage - were popular with their peers and with boys but all things being equal they were likely to suffer from depression more likely to suffer from an eating disorder more likely to become suicidal ; gain weight earlier which is viewed a






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. 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






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






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






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






29. 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






30. Based on the standard deviation






31. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






32. Define intelligence






33. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






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






36. 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






37. 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)






38. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






40. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______






41. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






42. 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






43. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






44. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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







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