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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. 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






2. What happened in the past






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






4. 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






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






6. 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






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






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






9. Erikson said if a child is having feelings of role confusion to take a ________






10. How to Piaget and Kohlberg differ?






11. 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






12. 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


13. What are the Piaget's 3 Principles?






14. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?






15. The occupational choice tends to happen during the beginning of adolescent years : this can lead to an example of _________






16. Two important factors you need to look at are _____ and _____






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. 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 )






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






25. 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






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






27. Piaget believes effective teaching takes place in the _____






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. What are 5 different types of testing?






35. 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






36. Behavior being measured in experiment






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






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






44. 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)






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






46. Ruled that tests that are biased (IQ tests) cannot be used for the placement of minority kids into classes






47. Does it measure what it claims to measure?






48. Age of 12 to 15 years; during this stage the child will be going through adolescence and will develop a sense of ____ or _____ where they arent really sure how to behave or how to be accepted by other or who they are






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






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