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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
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1. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________






2. 1. some people feel as though he may have underestimated the ability of kids 2. he talked about there being 4 distinct stages of development 3. some critics focused too much on what children couldnt do rather than what they could do 4. some think t






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






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






5. 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






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






7. When you play besides someone but not really interacting with them






8. What are 5 different types of testing?






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






10. Categories are 34% - 14% and 2% from the mean ; height - weight - intelligence - will fall under this






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






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






13. _____ had a huge impact on






14. 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






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






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






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






18. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.






19. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






20. 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






21. These kids are only considered 'retarded' during the 6 hours they attend school; characteristics mostly male - minority - come from lower SES familes






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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. 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 )






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. Define intelligence






35. 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






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. 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






38. 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






39. 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)


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






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






42. 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






43. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






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






45. 11 years and on ; the child begins to use abstract thinking - deal with hypothesis - engages in mental manipulations; this formal thinking develops gradually






46. 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






47. 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






48. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






49. 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






50. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills