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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
Invariant
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Control variable
Psychoscoial moratorium
2. New experiences that fit an existing scheme ; a child sees a ew type of ball and realizes it a ball - different from his ball but understands its still a ball
Laray Pee case
Assimilation
Correlation
Think at different ages
3. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems
Naturalistic observations
Organizations
Lorenz - imprinting
Vygotsky beliefs
4. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills
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
Zone of Proximal Distance
Intelligence
Conventional morality
5. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class
Accommodation
Educational psychology
Naturalistic observations
Grade equivalency score
6. Behavior being measured in experiment
Negative correlation
4 times - successful suicide
Beverly Fargot
Dependent variable
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
Identity diffusion
Naturalistic observation
Reliability and validity
Double blind study
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.
Testing
Naturalistic observations
Reversibility
Jane Mercer
9. She said what we should strive for is psychological androgony (means not gender specific - can be both male and female characteristics)
'storm and stress'
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Sandra bem
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
10. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages
'storm and stress'
Kohlberg
Arthur JEnsen
Erikson's contributions
11. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____
1. conservationism 2. De-centration 3. Reversibility
Reliability and validity
Vygotsky
Erikson's contributions
12. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence
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13. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
Decentration
4 times - successful suicide
Accommodation
Testing
14. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
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
Late maturing girls
Object permanence
Positive correlation
15. 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
Language
Sensorimotor stage
Stages
Beverly Fagot
16. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Lorenz - imprinting
Standardized scores
Identity diffusion
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
17. Older kids have the ability to pour the water back and realize it is the same amount
Vygotsky beliefs
Reversibility
Stages
Standardized testing
18. 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
Preoperational stage
Cognitive reasoning
Early maturing girls
Preconventional morality
19. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
1st year ; development of trust
Early maturing girls
Arthur JEnsen
20. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______
Stages
Contributions of Piaget
Identity achievement
Different types of tests and surverys
21. 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
Identity vs role confusion
Adaptation
Industry vs inferiority
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
22. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes
Laray Pee case
Naturalistic observation
Sandra bem
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
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
Testing
Early maturing girls
Identity foreclosure
Jean Block
24. _____ had a huge impact on
Accommodation
Piaget
Educational psychology
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
25. 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
Early maturing girls
Preoperational stage
Zone of Proximal Distance
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
26. 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
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Concrete-operational stage
Preoperational stage
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
27. An organized pattern of behavior or thought
Scheme
Normal curve
James Marcia
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
28. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
Criticisms of Piaget
Egocentric thinking
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
29. 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
Identity achievement
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
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
James Marcia
30. Means a delay or pause or break from your usual activities
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Laray Pee case
Psychoscoial moratorium
Role confusions
31. 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
Hartshore and May
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Naturalistic observation
Beverly Fagot
32. Relationship between two variables in which the high value of one is associated with a low value of the other; example - outside temperature and weight of clothes people wear
Negative correlation
Individual case study
Identity diffusion
Independent variable
33. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
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
Standardized testing
Private speech
Frequency distribution
34. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
Stanine scores
Normal curve
Contributions of Piaget
35. 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
Hartshore and May
Normal curve
Conservation
Concrete-operational stage
36. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight
'storm and stress'
Object permanence
Positive correlation
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
37. Williams developed a test called black intelligence test of cultural homogeniasis test known as _________
Double blind study
BITCH test
Educational psychology
Erikson's contributions
38. 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
Moral development
Validity
Carol Gilligan
Criticisms of Piaget
39. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
Different types of tests and surverys
Educational psychology
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
Experimental and control
40. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Correlation
Vygotsky beliefs
1st year ; development of trust
Formal operation stage
41. 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
Initiative vs guilt
Clinical method
Hartshore and May
Dependent variable
42. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are
Vygotsky
Jane Mercer
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
Educational psychology
43. 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
Erikson's criticisms
Beverly Fargot
Private speech
Invariant
44. Does it measure what it claims to measure?
Validity
Erikson's contributions
Formal operation stage
Post conventional morality
45. A branch of psychology that studies children in an educational setting and is concerned with teaching and learning methods - cognitive development - and aptitude assessment
Adaptation
Dependent variable
Stanine scores
Educational psychology
46. Age 6 to 11 years; during this stage the child begins school; if they are sucsessful in school they develop a sense of accomplishment ; these feelings may stay with a child throughout their entire life
Industry vs inferiority
Control variable
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
Laray Pee case
47. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)
Invariant
Normal curve
Identity diffusion
Dependent variable
48. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Experimental methods
Clinical method
Adaptation
Assimilation and accommodation
49. Factor being manipulated in experimental group
Frequency distribution
Independent variable
1st year ; development of trust
Clinical method
50. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.
Organization and adaptation
Different types of tests and surverys
Egocentric thinking
Grade equivalency score