D307 - Educational Psychology
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Latest 2024/2025 update.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Physiological -Correct Answer: basic life needs, physical needs for survival ex: food, snacks, water, sleep, rest, breaks, clothing, warmth
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Safety -Correct Answer: provide protection and security ex: home, money, resources, not being bullied
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Love and Belonging -Correct Answer: involves relationships, knowing someone cares
Ex: friends, family, trust, being part of a group, sharing, encouraging one another
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Esteem -Correct Answer: respect and admiration
Ex: your achievements, competence, recognition, reputation, independence, pride, being respected, feeling special
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Actualization -Correct Answer: reaching your fullest potential
Ex: personal growth, achieving your ideal self, sound mental health, acceptance of self and others, feeling fulfilled
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Cognitive -Correct Answer: curiosity, knowledge, intellectual exploration
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Aesthetic -Correct Answer: Beauty and balance, artistic pursuits, nature, music
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Transcendence -Correct Answer: meeting spiritual needs, helping others achieve self-actualization
Physical Development Expectation for Infants -Correct Answer: -birth to 2 years
-infants: hold up heads, roll over, reach for things, sit, crawl, begin to walk, increased coordination, manipulate object with hands
-by age 2: feed themselves with hands, jump and run awkwardly, throw ball, use zipper, make a tower of blocks
Physical Development Expectation for Early Childhood -Correct Answer: -2 to 6 years pre-k/kinder/primary school
-toddlers: love to run, hop, tumble, play, swing, fine motor skills developing, can string beads, do jigsaw puzzles
-by the age of 4: print name, dress/undress themselves, eat with utensils
Physical Development Expectation for Middle Childhood -Correct Answer: -6 to 10 years old primary/elementary school
-slow steady weight gain
-speed and coordination improve
-begin organized sports
-refinement of motor skills
-improved hand writing
-drawings more representational
Physical Development Expectation for Adolescence -Correct Answer: -10 to 18 years middle/high school
-rapid growth (3-5inches)
-girls begin puberty earlier
-boys grow taller
-boys more muscular
-girls physical growth slows
-boys physical growth continues
-reach sexual maturity
Piaget's stages of cognitive development: Sensorimotor -Correct Answer: Birth to 2 years Learn through movement and senses
-reflexive or active
-sucking
-grabbing
-looking and listening
-crawling
-object permanence
Piaget's stages of cognitive development: Preoperational -Correct Answer: 2 to 6 years (pre-k/kinder) Prelogical thought
-play and pretend
-symbolic thinking (pictures, numbers, letters)
-language develops
-forma many new schemes
-egocentrism (self centered)
-centration (focus on one aspect at a time)
Piaget's stages of cognitive development: Concrete Operational -Correct Answer: 7 to 11 years, Elementary
Factual and Logical thought
-need concrete, hands on, experience
-mental reversal (balloons inflate and deflate)
-seriation
-sorting
-classifying
-conservation (tall skinny glass holding, same amount of liquid as short thick glass)
Piaget's stages of cognitive development: Formal Operational -Correct Answer: 12+ years Middle/High school
Higher order thinking and reasoning
-abstract thinking
-critical thinking
-hypothesize
-predict
-metaphors
-mental manipulations
-systematic problem solving
Schemes, schema -Correct Answer: organized patterns of knowledge, skills and experiences (file folders)
Adaptation -Correct Answer: process of making sense of new information
Assimilation -Correct Answer: similar information to existing scheme (same folder)
Accomodation -Correct Answer: modify, adjust, change, create new scheme (new folders)
Equilibrium -Correct Answer: everything makes sense
Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) -Correct Answer: the space between what a learner can do without assistance and what a learner can do with adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers
Vygotsky's Scaffolding -Correct Answer: explaining, providing examples and clarifications, asking leading questions
Private Speech -Correct Answer: talk to myself, whisper outloud to myself
Silent inner speech -Correct Answer: think inside my head
Social speech -Correct Answer: talk to others
Sociocultural context has emphasis in Piaget's theory of Cognitive development. -Correct Answer: little
Sociocultural context has emphasis in Vigotsky's theory of Cognitive development. -Correct Answer: strong
There is a emphasis on stages in Piaget's theory of Cognitive development. -Correct Answer: strong
There is a emphasis on stages in Vigotsky's theory of Cognitive development. -Correct Answer: no
The role of language in Piaget's theory is: -Correct Answer: minimal - it just provides labels for children's experiences
The role of language in Vygotsky's theory is: -Correct Answer: major - language plays a powerful role in shaping thoughts
Piaget's teaching implications: -Correct Answer: supports children to explore their world and discover knowledge
Vygotsky's teaching implications: -Correct Answer: establish opportunities for children to learn with the teacher and more skilled peers
Erikson's: Trust vs Mistrust -Correct Answer: birth to 12 months
-provide love, care, food
-need comfort and safety
Erikson's: autonomy vs Shame and Doubt -Correct Answer: 1 to 3 years
-"me do" stage
-need for independence
-insists on doing things on their own
Erikson's: initiative vs Guilt -Correct Answer: 3 to 6 years
-exploration
-trying new things on own
-asking a lot of questions
Erikson's: industry vs inferiority -Correct Answer: 6 to 12 years
-intellectual curiosity
-school performance
-need positive reinforcement
-praise
-avoid competition or criticism
Erikson's: identity vs role confusion -Correct Answer: 12 to 18 years
-develop send of self
-influenced by others reactions
-peers are more important than parents or teachers
-social role models are important
-figuring out what they want to due with life after high school
Erikson's: intimacy vs isolation -Correct Answer: 20-40 young adults
-best friends and soulmates
-developing intimate relationships, life partners
Bandura's Attention: -Correct Answer: the individual needs to pay attention to the behavior and its consequences
Bandura's Retention: -Correct Answer: the individual stores the observed behavior in LTM where it can stay for a long time. Imitation is not always immediate
Bandura's Reproduction: -Correct Answer: the individual must be able to reproduce the observed behavior
Bandura's Motivation: -Correct Answer: the individual must expect to receive the same positive reinforcements for imitating the observed behavior that they have seen the model receiving
Live model -Correct Answer: involves an actual individual demonstrating or acting out a behavior
Symbolic model -Correct Answer: involves real or fictional characters displaying behaviors in books, films, television programs, or online media
Verbal instructional model -Correct Answer: involves descriptions and explanations of a behavior
Gilligan's theory of moral development: Preconventional stage -Correct Answer: "i love myself" selfishness and my needs come first
Gilligan's theory of moral development: Conventional Stage -Correct Answer: "i love you more than myself"
Responsibility for others needs for others comes first
Gilligan's theory of moral development: Post Conventional Stage -Correct Answer: "i love myself and i love you"
Goodness and understanding that i am also a person, i can take care of myself and others
Kholberg's theory of moral development: Preconventional Stage -Correct Answer: all about me
Obedience and Punishment:
-being obedient
-avoid punishment
-get reward
-no concept of rules, just follows
Instrumental Orientation:
-whats in it for me?
-self serving purpose
-personal gain
Kholberg's theory of moral development: Conventional Stage -Correct Answer: all about the rules
Good boy, nice girl:
-wants approval from others
-being a good student/citizen
Law and order:
-respect and authority or policy
-maintain suicidal conventions
-social order
-rules are set and unchangeable
Kholberg's theory of moral development: Post Conventional Stage -Correct Answer: all about others
Social contracts:
-golden rule
-for the greater good
-based on dignity, equality, respect
Universal-Ethical-Principle:
-rules and laws are flexible depending on context of the situation
-live by own ethical principles
-protect rights, liberty, justice
Chomsky's Language Acquisition Device (LAD) -Correct Answer: people are born with innate, instinctive, biological ability to learn a language
Chomsky's Universal Grammar -Correct Answer: All languages have structures, patterns, and rules (grammar)
Motherese -Correct Answer: the spontaneous ways in which mothers, fathers, and caregivers speak with infants and young children
Skinner's Operant Conditioning -Correct Answer: -children learn language based on reinforcement
-associating words with meanings
-learn language through imitating, prompting, shaping
-correct utterances are positively reinforced
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D307 - Educational Psychology
Questions with 100% correct answers
Latest 2024/2025 update.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Physiological -Correct Answer: basic life needs, physical needs for
survival ex: food, snacks, water, sleep, rest, breaks, clothing, warmth
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Safety -Correct Answer: provide protection and
security ex: home, money, resources, not being bullied
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Love and Belonging -Correct Answer: involves relationships,
knowing someone cares
Ex: friends, family, trust, being part of a group, sharing, encouraging one another
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Esteem -Correct Answer: respect and admiration
Ex: your achievements, competence, recognition, reputation, independence, pride, being
respected, feeling special
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Self-Actualization -Correct Answer: reaching your fullest potential
Ex: personal growth, achieving your ideal self, sound mental health, acceptance of self and
others, feeling fulfilled
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Cognitive -Correct Answer: curiosity, knowledge, intellectual
exploration
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Aesthetic -Correct Answer: Beauty and balance, artistic pursuits,
nature, music
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: Transcendence -Correct Answer: meeting spiritual needs,
,helping others achieve self-actualization
, Physical Development Expectation for Infants -Correct Answer: -birth to 2 years
-infants: hold up heads, roll over, reach for things, sit, crawl, begin to walk, increased
coordination, manipulate object with hands
-by age 2: feed themselves with hands, jump and run awkwardly, throw ball, use zipper, make a
tower of blocks
Physical Development Expectation for Early Childhood -Correct Answer: -2 to 6 years pre-
k/kinder/primary school
-toddlers: love to run, hop, tumble, play, swing, fine motor skills developing, can string beads,
do jigsaw puzzles
-by the age of 4: print name, dress/undress themselves, eat with utensils
Physical Development Expectation for Middle Childhood -Correct Answer: -6 to 10 years old
primary/elementary school
-slow steady weight gain
-speed and coordination improve
-begin organized sports
-refinement of motor skills
-improved hand writing
-drawings more representational
Physical Development Expectation for Adolescence -Correct Answer: -10 to 18 years middle/high
school
-rapid growth (3-5inches)
-girls begin puberty earlier
-boys grow taller
-boys more muscular
-girls physical growth slows
-boys physical growth continues
-reach sexual maturity