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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






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






3. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






4. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






6. 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 )






7. 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






8. What happened in the past






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






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






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






12. 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)


13. 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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. 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)






19. 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.






20. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






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






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


23. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






24. New experiences that fit an existing scheme ; a child sees a ew type of ball and realizes it a ball - different from his ball but understands its still a ball






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






26. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






27. 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






28. Found that from an early age boys are encouraged to be competitive - to achieve - and to control the expression of their feelings; girls at an early age are encouraged to develop close relationhips - talk about their troubles - and show affection and






29. The child begins to realize that objects can continue to exist when they are out of sight






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






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






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






33. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






34. 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






35. 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






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






37. Are the scores repeatable?






38. 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






39. 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






40. What are Erkison's 8 psychosocial stages?






41. 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






42. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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






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






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






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






47. Stages all happen in the same sequence






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






49. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






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