Guideline for final examination
5. Review the process of adaptation: more specifically review about association, disequilibrium, assimilation, accommodation, and schematization.
6. Review the relative influence of heredity and environment on intelligence.
1. Read about Charles Spearman. This is very well known for the theory he developed related to two factors that influence intelligence: “a “g” factor and several “s factors”.
7. Review also about Stemberg’s Triarchic theory of intelligence. According to this theory, Czarina, who works part-time in the library and developed an impressive new scheme checking out books quickly.
8. Read documents about IQ and Scholastic Assessment Test. For instance that a child an IQ of 110 can be place in a regular class. And in terms of mainstreaming: for instance A child with an IQ of 69 enrolled in a regular class of students with average IQ.
9. Remember some branches of Psychology.
10. Remember in terms of research, cross-sectional research is used to determine the desired developmental difference between the age group.
11. Review a little bit on developmental psychology. During infancy period, a child develops attachment
12. Review about children behaviors of children.
13. In sensory-motor stage, infants below 9 months old, do not attempt to locate the hidden toys they are playing with because infants lack object permanence. In addition, in hidden games the toddler is developing an ego-centric thoughts.
14. According to Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development, some people move through the 6 stages in a fixed order; not capable of reaching the highest stage until about the age of 13 because of the deficit in cognitive development.
15. Review your notes on morality. For instance stealing is very bad because of pre-conventional morality.
16. There are 5 stages of dying according Dr. Cubler Ross, that a dying patient passes through: Those are:
1. Denial: Here a patient refuses to accept the fate
2. Anger: the patient becomes angry
3. Bargaining: the patient negotiate like this: “: “If only my life will be extended, I will spend it by helping the poor.”
4. Acceptance: the patient accepts the reality that he is going to die
5. Realization: This is the time the patient eventually dies,
17. Review your notes and read about counseling, the benefits of counseling, as well as the types of conseling. For instance, in self-help and support groups, clients provide support and understanding to participants who share the same problem. Other types of conseling include, Long-term counseling, residential treatment, Crisis intervention therapy, Group therapy and family therapy.
18. Remember the man called Descartes is the one who developed “the biomedical model”
19. Remember that Psychosomatic medicine was developed in the 1930’s, studies how emotional, social and psychological factors influence the development and progression of illness.
20. Medical anthropology examines the differences in how health and illness are viewed
by people in different cultures.
21. Education is a process by which society transmits to new members the values, beliefs, knowledge, and symbolic expressions to make communication possible within society.
22. Schooling is the teaching and learning that takes place in formal environments.
23. Learning is a permanent change in an individual's behavior.
24. Educational psychology is concerned primarily with understanding the processes of teaching and learning that take place within formal environments and developing ways of improving those methods.
26. Review the degree to which is intelligence influenced by the environment and to what degree is intelligence influenced by heredity. In this context, there is no absolute answer because individual IQ vary far more than group IQ scores.
27. Talking about persuasion, there are 3 main characteristics of an effective message intended to produce an attitude and behavior change.