Test your basic knowledge |

Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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






2. 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






3. What are the 4 cognitive stages developed by Piaget?






4. 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






5. Based on the standard deviation






6. 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.






7. Young kids that talk to themselves






8. What are the two types of adaptation?






9. 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)






10. Did research and used moral dellima stories like Kohlberg to compare males to females; discovered women showed more care/concern; men experience more of a feeling of justice being served






11. Piaget didnt believe that _____ plays an imporant role in the child's cognitive development






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






13. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






15. 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






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






17. Are the scores repeatable?






18. What are 5 different types of testing?






19. Behavior being measured in experiment






20. 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






21. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






22. 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 )






23. 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)

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






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






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






31. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






32. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






33. A mathematical concept that depicts a bell shaped distributions of scores






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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. Refers to puberty and the hormones influencing behavior and feelings - what Stanley Hall considered adolescence

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






39. Erikson believes the ____ year of life is a CRITICAL PERIOD for the development of ______






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






41. 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






42. Liuson and Peskin looked at kids who began to develop physically mature before their class mates ( ___________)






43. More confident and more outgoing






44. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






45. 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






46. What happened in the past






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






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






49. 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






50. 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