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Educational Psychology Basics
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1. 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

2. 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.

3. ______ says kids often engage in parallel play

4. 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

5. The sens of balance is known as ________________

6. 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 )

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. What are 3 different ways to study behavior?

12. 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

13. Behavior being measured in experiment

14. Are the scores repeatable?

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

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. Not only observe behavior - also manipulate it.

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

21. Age 6 to 11 years; during this stage the child begins school; if they are sucsessful in school they develop a sense of accomplishment ; these feelings may stay with a child throughout their entire life

22. Age 4 to 5 years; during this stage the child beings to learn language ; see alot of exploration from the child ; this initiative to explore will be encouraged if the child doesnt feel guilty

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