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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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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. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






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






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


4. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






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






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






7. 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 )






8. 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 )






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






10. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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






12. 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)






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






14. 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






15. Keeping all variables in both groups the same except for one






16. Are the scores repeatable?






17. Based on the standard deviation






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


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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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


26. 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






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






28. More confident and more outgoing






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






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






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)


32. Ages 2 to 3 ; during this stage kids may develop a sense of independence ; they begin to walk and potty train(learn self control) - 'NO!' Erikson believes this is the child developing a sense of _______(self confidence)






33. 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






34. 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






35. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






36. At any point in a child's development there are problems that the child is just on the verge of being able to solve by them but they dont have quite enough skills to solve them themselves; however - if they are given assistance/guidance they are ofte






37. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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






40. 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






41. Ranking a test from highest to lowest scores ; when psychologists look at test performance they look at measures of central tendency






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






43. 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






44. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






49. 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






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