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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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






2. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment






3. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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






5. 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






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






7. 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






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






10. Found that parents tend to encourage their daughters to be dependent ; she suggests that parents and teachers encourage them to figure the problem out their selves before they help






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






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






13. 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






14. 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.






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






16. More confident and more outgoing






17. 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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18. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






19. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______






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






21. 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






22. Piaget did over 40 years of research using experiments and research of how kids ________.






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

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24. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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






30. Are the scores repeatable?






31. 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






32. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






34. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






35. What happened in the past






36. 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






37. 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.






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






39. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






41. 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






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






43. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






45. The sens of balance is known as ________________






46. Based on the standard deviation






47. 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






48. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






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