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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. 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






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. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






4. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






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






6. 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






7. 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






8. 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)






9. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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






12. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






16. What are the two types of adaptation?






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






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






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






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

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






22. In Chicago the judge ruled that IQ tests are not biased against minority kids and that they can be used for placement






23. 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






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






33. 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 )






34. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






36. 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.






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






38. Define intelligence






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






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






41. _____ had a huge impact on






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






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






44. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






45. 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






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






47. Relationship between two variables where they increase or decrease together ; example - number of calories and number of pounds gained






48. Most psychologists believe that intelligence is due to ___ ____; you cant prove which one is more or if they equal but they both play a role






49. 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






50. A window of opportunity; if something doesnt happen during this period it may never happen