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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Adolescents who do not feel a sense of crisis about their future career because they avoid thinking about it (lets party attitude)






2. 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






3. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






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






6. 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






7. Behavior being measured in experiment






8. 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






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






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






11. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






12. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






13. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.






14. We inherit the tendencies to combine processes into coherent systems






15. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






16. 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






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






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






19. Based on the standard deviation






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






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






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






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

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24. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






25. 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






26. 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 )






27. A tendency we all have to adapt or adjust to our environment; the child uses intellectual processes to transform them so they can use them for new experiences






28. study of psychological problems related to education - apply psychology theories and research to the class






29. 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






30. 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 )






31. 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)

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32. 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






33. 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






34. 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






35. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






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






37. Piaget also found that young kids engage in __________; presume that everyone sees things or experiences things the same way as they do






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






39. Birth to about 9 years old ; kohlberg says young kids do not understand the rules of society; they follow the rules to avoid punishment






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

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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. The sens of balance is known as ________________






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






48. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






50. 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)