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Educational Psychology Basics
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Psychosocial moratorium
Experimental and control
Frequency distribution
2. 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
Jane Mercer
Criticisms of Piaget
Carol Gilligan
Identity achievement
3. Part of What is called assessment; a sample of behavior or knowledge and try to draw conclusions based on that
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
Testing
Industry vs inferiority
Percentile score
4. Piaget says the cognitive stages a child goes through are _________
1. trust vs mistrust 2.autonomy vs shame and doubt 3. initiative vs guilt 4. industry vs inferiority 5. identity vs role confusions
Invariant
Standardized testing
Piaget
5. 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
Think at different ages
Sensorimotor stage
Normal curve
Late maturing girls
6. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment
Preconventional morality
Grade equivalency score
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
Beverly Fargot
7. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them
Organization and adaptation
Parallel play
Cognitive reasoning
Private speech
8. What are 5 different types of testing?
1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete-operational stage 4. formal operation stage
Early maturing girls
Post conventional morality
Educational testing(IQ - group test - leap - standardized testing - Norm reference test - frequency distribution - and criteria reference test
9. A derived score that indicates the percentage of people at or below this raw score
Percentile score
Grade equivalency score
Late maturing girls
Sensorimotor stage
10. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this
Early maturing boys
Sandra bem
Normal curve
1st year ; development of trust
11. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages
Individual case study
Frequency distribution
Kohlberg
Sensorimotor stage
12. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight
Negative correlation
Cognitive reasoning
Industry vs inferiority
Object permanence
13. _____ had a huge impact on
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
Piaget
Sandra bem
Role confusions
14. 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
Object permanence
Psychoscoial moratorium
Naturalistic observation
Concrete-operational stage
15. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)
Erikson's criticisms
Early and late maturation
Testing
Standard score (derived score)
16. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary
Concrete-operational stage
Grade equivalency score
Adaptation
Hartshore and May
17. What are the 5 components of the Scientific method?
Preoperational stage
Accommodation
Concrete-operational stage
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
18. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.
Criticisms of Piaget
Assimilation and accommodation
Sandra bem
Experimental methods
19. Factor being manipulated in experimental group
Independent variable
Naturalistic observation
Organizations
Psychoscoial moratorium
20. 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
'storm and stress'
Beverly Fagot
Role confusions
Naturalistic observation
21. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes
Identity diffusion
Cognitive reasoning
6 hour retardets
Post conventional morality
22. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards
Standardized testing
Adaptation
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Formal operation stage
23. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores
6 hour retardets
Criterion (criteria) reference test
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
BITCH test
24. 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
Experimental and control
Invariant
Hartshore and May
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
25. Was influenced by the works of Erikson - talked about adolescents going through different identity statuses ( identity choices )
James Marcia
Stanine scores
Jensen's response to 'are IQ tests bias?'
Naturalistic observations
26. 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
Jean Block
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Emotional intelligence
Norm reference test ( ACT - GRE - IQ tests - in class exams - special education placement)
27. Where is this new experience causes a change in an existing scheme ; child may have to modify this scheme (ex: john lenon's child adding a new idea of what a court is )
Accommodation
Kohlberg
Preoperational stage
Frequency distribution
28. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained
Control variable
Testing
Positive correlation
Private speech
29. Piaget believes that the different thinking throughout childhood occurs in _______
Stages
Sensorimotor stage
Grade equivalency score
Standard score (derived score)
30. 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
Hartshore and May
Reversibility
Late maturing boys
Beverly Fargot
31. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency
Vygotsky beliefs
Frequency distribution
Preoperational stage
Emotional intelligence
32. What are the 3 levels of moral reasoning developed by Kohlberg?
1. preconventional morality 2. conventional morality 3. post conventional morality
Assimilation
Negative correlation
Organizations
33. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development
Language
Control variable
Assimilation and accommodation
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
34. Define intelligence
Pase vs Hannon
Concrete-operational stage
Language
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
35. 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
Negative correlation
Parallel play
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
36. 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
Jane Mercer
Clinical method
Norm reference test
Normal curve ( bell shaped curve)
37. 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
Double blind study
Preoperational stage
Parpain
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
38. 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
Correlation
Zone of Proximal Distance
Carol Gilligan
Emotional intelligence
39. 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)
40. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one
Frequency distribution
Experimental and control
BITCH test
Control variable
41. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______
1st year ; development of trust
Positive correlation
Normal curve
Early and late maturation
42. 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
Jean Block
Preoperational stage
BITCH test
Naturalistic observation
43. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.
Erikson's contributions
Different types of tests and surverys
Equilibrium ( mental balance)
ZPD - zone of prozimal distance
44. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared
Standardized scores
Positive correlation
6 hour retardets
Erikson's contributions
45. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually
Trust vs mistrust; if the child's basic needs are met during this stage then they come out with a sense of trust; if not met they come out with a sense of mistrust
Formal operation stage
Stages
Vygotsky calls this Private Speech
46. Refers to a persons ability to monitor their own and other peoples feelings and to use this information to guide their thinking and their actions ; some people say this refers more to a personality trait
Psychosocial moratorium
Different types of tests and surverys
Emotional intelligence
Beverly Fargot
47. 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
6 hour retardets
Negative correlation
Validity
Early and late maturation
48. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play
Control variable
ZPD - Zone of proximal distance
Parpain
Think at different ages
49. 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
Think at different ages
Different types of tests and surverys
Standardized scores
Vygotsky beliefs
50. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills
Preoperational stage
Normal curve
Intelligence
Jean Block