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| Parental Racial Socialization |
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- Minorities, not whities
- Cultural Practice
- Racial Pride
- Preparation for bias
- First 2 leads to more ability to handle stress & discrimination; higher self-esteem
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- Troublesome, tough, atheletic but poor in school, aggressive
- Appear cool for atheletics and devious social skills
- With time peers reject them for being too aggressive
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- Combine academic and social competence
- Perform well in school
- Communicate with peers in sensitive, friendly, and cooperative ways
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- High rates of onflict, physical, & relational aggression
- Hyperactive, inattentive, & impulsive behaviour
- Defficient in perspective taking & emotional regulation
- Tend to misinterpret innocent behaviours of peers as hostile
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- Passive and socially awkward
- Overwhelmed by social anxiety
- Hold negative expectation for peer treatment
- Worry about being scorned and attacked
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| Robbie Case's Info Processing Theory |
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- Information processing speeds up > cognitive schemes demand less attention and become automatic >frees up working memory for new schemes
- Due to myelnation and synaptic pruning
- Inhibition improves
- Gains in memory, attention, and knowledge use
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| Spearman's 2-Factor Intelligence Theory |
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- General Factor (g); Fluid; how quickly we figure stuff out
- Specific Factor (s); Crystalized; Using our experiences to figure out new problems
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| Gardener's Multiple Intelligence |
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- Linguistic; sounds and language
- Logico-mathmatical; logical, numerical, reasoning
- Musical
- Spacial; artsy, vision
- Bodily-Kinesthetic
- Naturalist; nature and biology
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal
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| Sternberg's Triarchic Intelligence |
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- Analytic Intelligence; info processing components, ability to come to the correct answer quickly when there is one solution
- Creative Intelligence; Generating useful solutions to new problems, test divergent thinking
- Practical Intelligence; Adapting to, shaping, or selecting environments, Manuevering in systems
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| Stereotype threat, test-content, and communication styles cause ethnic differences in intelligence scores |
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| A combonation of drilling in math facts and learning strategies to understand concepts |
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- Whole Language Approach: Reading should be taught in a way that parallels natural language learning and should be exposed to text in its complete form
- Phonics Approach: Children should first be coached on the basic rules of translating written symbols into sounds, then onto more complex reading
- The best way to learn is a combo of the two
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| Ethnic Differences in Test Scores Theories |
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- Psychometric: Stereotype Threat
- Nativist: Genetic differences btwn ethnic groups
- Environmentalists: Ethnicity is correlated w/ certain environments and these environments lead to diff test scores
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| Common Intelligence Tests for Children |
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- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales
- The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
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- Rehearsal - Repeating info to oneself
- Organization - Grouping related items together
- Elaboration - Creating a relationship or shared meaning btwn 2+ pieces of info that don't belong in the same category
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- Increased understanding of cognitive processes & psychological factors
- Know that attention is needed to do well on a task & increased effort
- Aware of memory strategies
- Understanding of knowledge sources expands; can make mental inferences
- Knowledge of false beliefs expands; understand that people believe things about others' beliefs
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| Factors that lead to Popular, Rejected, Etc. |
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| Factors that Influence Ethnic Biases |
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- Not enough ethnic teaching in school
- Family influences
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