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Educational Psychology Basics

Subject : teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Believes that kids learn about their culture through interaction with those older than they are






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






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

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






5. 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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6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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)






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






12. 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






13. Factor being manipulated in experimental group






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






15. IQ tests - interest tests - personality - etc.






16. 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 )






17. 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






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






19. These individuals often times have more feelings of inferiority - not as popular as the ..... typically - more likely to engage in attention getting behavior (silly goofy stuff)






20. Probably the most often looked at score when people look at reports






21. An organized pattern of behavior or thought






22. 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






23. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






25. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






26. 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 )






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






28. What happened in the past






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






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






31. 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






32. The higher the statistic the stronger the ___________






33. 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






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






35. Based on the standard deviation






36. Define intelligence






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






41. Young kids that talk to themselves






42. More confident and more outgoing






43. 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






44. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






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

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






47. 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






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






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






50. The sens of balance is known as ________________