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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. They were more self confident - had higher self esteem - more likely to be leaders and more likely to receive favorable comments from adults ; this happens because the look ... and are better athletes; the only bad thing is that they are more likely

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

4. Being able to realize that properties can stay the same in spite of a change in appearance ; what he found from his study was children under the age of 6 said that there was more water in beaker 1 than beaker 3 (even though it was the same amount of

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

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

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

8. 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

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

10. Stages all happen in the same sequence

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

12. Are the scores repeatable?

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

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

15. 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

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

17. Piaget said we has humans inherit two basic tendencies ______ and ______.

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

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

20. What happened in the past

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

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

23. 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

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. Experimental method consists of 2 groups: _____ and ________