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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores






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.






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






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






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






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






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. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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.






10. What happened in the past






11. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes






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






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






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






15. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






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






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






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






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






21. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that






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






23. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






24. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )






25. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






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






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






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






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






38. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






39. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






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






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






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)






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






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






46. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






47. Talked about kids in schools that were only considered retarded during the 6 hours they were at school






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






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