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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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






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






3. 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






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






5. Based on the standard deviation






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






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






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

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9. Having the ability to focus on more than one quality at a time






10. 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 )






11. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






12. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






13. Can transform all the GES scores into ______ so they can be compared






14. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






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






16. Goes from birth to age 1 - during this stage he believes the child begins to learn whether or not they can trust their world

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






19. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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






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






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






25. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






29. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






30. 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






31. When a child encounters a new experience that does not fit an existing scheme _________ becomes necessary






32. How do children develop a sense of right and wrong - what behavior is okay and what behavior is not okay






33. What happened in the past






34. 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






35. 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 )






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






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






38. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






39. 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






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






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. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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