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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. 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
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Accommodation
James Marcia
2. _____ had a huge impact on
Hartshore and May
Early and late maturation
Piaget
Industry vs inferiority
3. What are 5 different types of testing?
Concrete-operational stage
Kohlberg believes that moral reasoning could be sped up by instruction; Piaget disagreed because he believes moral reasoning is tied into cognitive development and cognitive development cannot be sped up
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Reliability
4. 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
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Adaptation
Late maturing boys
Preoperational stage
5. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Early and late maturation
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
Independent variable
Naturalistic observations
6. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Carol Gilligan
Jean Block
Identity foreclosure
7. Achieved the success of trying to encourage your kids to experience success and limit the feelings of inferiority
8. 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.
Standard score (derived score)
Adaptation
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Naturalistic observations
9. 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
Independent variable
Standard score (derived score)
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Stanine scores
10. 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
11. Belief that some people have that they have little or no control over their lives ; those that often have this have problems with depression
Learned helplessness
6 hour retardets
Independent variable
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
12. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance
Initiative vs guilt
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
Vygotsky
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
13. 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
Educational psychology
Decentration
Arthur JEnsen
Preoperational stage
14. There are adolescents who accept and endorse the career choice made for them by someone else
Grade equivalency score
Identity foreclosure
Experimental and control
Laray Pee case
15. 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
Parpain
Standardized scores
Early maturing boys
Beverly Fagot
16. 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
Learned helplessness
Jean Block
Concrete-operational stage
Contributions of Piaget
17. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
Assimilation and accommodation
Identity achievement
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Beverly Fagot
18. 9 to about 20 years old ; this group he says follows the rules of society because they are the rules of society ; follow the rules to impress other people (like parents and teachers and to show their respect for authority )
Conventional morality
Correlation
Late maturing girls
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
19. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
Naturalistic observations
James Marcia
Psychoscoial moratorium
1st year ; development of trust
20. 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
Formal operation stage
Different types of tests and surverys
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
Private speech
21. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Control variable
Experimental and control
Double blind study
Industry vs inferiority
22. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared
Psychosocial moratorium
Parallel play
Object permanence
Standardized scores
23. Stages all happen in the same sequence
Reversibility
Invariant
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Early maturing girls
24. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Vygotsky beliefs
Percentile score
Normal curve
Intelligence
25. What happened in the past
Vygotsky
Correlation
Identity achievement
Kohlberg
26. 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
Critical period
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
Clinical method
Role confusions
27. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?
Naturalistic observation
Double blind study
1. Identity diffusion 2. Moratorium 3. identity achievement 4. Identity foreclosure
Egocentric thinking
28. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
Object permanence
Stages
Scheme
Dependent variable
29. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight
Negative correlation
Carol Gilligan
Grade equivalency score
Object permanence
30. Believed that intelligence is 80% due to heredity; he also believes that innate differences may exist between blacks and whites
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Arthur JEnsen
Contributions of Piaget
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
31. 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)
Experimental methods
Clinical method
Individual case study
Critical period
32. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Contributions of Piaget
Zone of Proximal Distance
Adaptation
Late maturing girls
33. 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
Nature vs nurture
Formal operation stage
Identity achievement
Parpain
34. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment
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
Stages
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Preconventional morality
35. Are the scores repeatable?
Reliability
Identity achievement
Object permanence
Arthur JEnsen
36. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____
Individual case study
Independent variable
Reliability and validity
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
37. 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
Control variable
Positive correlation
Think at different ages
Zone of Proximal Distance
38. 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)
Experimental and control
Frequency distribution
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
Reliability and validity
39. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Critical period
'storm and stress'
Beverly Fargot
40. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Laray Pee case
Adaptation
Percentile score
Stages
41. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are
Initiative vs guilt
Vygotsky
Identity foreclosure
Adaptation
42. 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
Standard score (derived score)
Role confusions
Contributions of Piaget
Decentration
43. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Piaget
Psychoscoial moratorium
Invariant
44. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports
Cognitive reasoning
Preoperational stage
James Marcia
Grade equivalency score
45. 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
Conservation
Accommodation
Industry vs inferiority
Educational psychology
46. 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
Vygotsky beliefs
Jean Block
Parallel play
Pase vs Hannon
47. 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
Parpain
Stanine scores
Sensorimotor stage
Naturalistic observations
48. 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
'storm and stress'
Private speech
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Naturalistic observation
49. Age of 12 to 15 years; during this stage the child will be going through adolescence and will develop a sense of ____ or _____ where they arent really sure how to behave or how to be accepted by other or who they are
Validity
Kohlberg
Correlation
Identity vs role confusion
50. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful
6 hour retardets
4 times - successful suicide
Invariant
1st year ; development of trust