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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Said that IQ tests are so biased they should be declared illegal






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






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

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






6. The ability to aquire knowledge or skills






7. 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






8. When a baby begins to attach to their mother -he did research with ducks. He would take the place of the mother duck during this time of imprinting and the ducks would imprint to him.






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






10. _____ had a huge impact on






11. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. The sens of balance is known as ________________






18. 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.






19. Piaget believes a child's moral reasoning is tied to their ________; because the 6 year old child has not mastered decentration yet so he can only focus on 1 thing at a time and he focused on the size of the stain so the child with the bigger stain w






20. What are 5 different types of testing?






21. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






22. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






23. What happened in the past






24. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






25. 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






26. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






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






28. 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






29. 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






30. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






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






32. 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






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






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






35. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






36. 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






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

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






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






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






41. 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






42. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. Being in that area of being able to do things by themselves with a little of assistance






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

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50. 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