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Educational Psychology Basics

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






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






3. What are the 4 different identity statuses of James Marcia?






4. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






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






6. The sens of balance is known as ________________






7. 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






8. 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






9. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)






10. 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






11. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






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

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13. Characterizes : only focus on one characteristic at a time - doesnt have reversibility - often times make decisions based on how things look and have a hard time realizing that an object can posses more than one property or that it can belong to seve






14. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






15. 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






16. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes






17. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






18. 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






19. 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






20. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






21. These individuals often times have more feelings of inferiority - not as popular as the ..... typically - more likely to engage in attention getting behavior (silly goofy stuff)






22. What are 5 different types of testing?






23. 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






24. 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






25. 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






26. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






27. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






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






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






30. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






31. 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






32. 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






33. Did research and found that parents tend to treat their boys and girls differently; they became negative when their daughters were overly physical or athletics ( parents were oten not aware of the negative feedback they gave when their daughter was i






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






35. 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






36. 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 )






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






38. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






39. believed that kids develop a sense of morality by going through stages






40. Take a standard set of items presented in a uniform manner and the results are reported in terms of standards






41. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






42. 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






43. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






45. Females are ____ times more likely to attempt suicide but when it comes to _____ boys are more successful






46. 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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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