Educational Psychology Exam
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Course Introduction
Educational Psychology explores the scientific study of how people learn and develop in educational settings, emphasizing cognitive, emotional, and social processes that influence learning. This course covers key theories of development and motivation, individual differences, classroom management, assessment methods, and instructional strategies. Students will examine how psychological principles apply to teaching practices and how educators can create effective, inclusive learning environments to support diverse learners. Through analysis of real-world scenarios and research findings, students gain insights into optimizing teaching and learning outcomes across various educational contexts.
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Essentials of Human Development A Life Span View 2nd Edition by Robert V. Kail
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the stages of development, according to the theory of Jean Piaget?
A) sensorimotor
B) diffused operational thought
C) formal operational thought
D) concrete operational thought
Answer: B
Q2) According to your text, what is the first step in doing research in the field of human development?
A) deciding whether to use systematic observation, sampling behavior with tasks, self-report or physiological measurement
B) creating a rationale for the research, by describing it in terms of at least one theory of development
C) coming up with a way to assess the validity and reliability of the measurement instruments that will be used
D) scouring the existing research literature for holes that can be filled with research based on contemporary theories
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations: Heredity, Prenatal
Development, and Birth
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Q1) If you were most interested in knowing the genotype of your unborn baby, perhaps to find out if there were specific genetic or chromosomal problems, which prenatal test would be most appropriate?
A) standard ultrasound
B) maternal glucose test
C) amniocentesis
D) 4-D color ultrasound
Answer: C
Q2) Why would a person be naturally concerned about undergoing an amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling during their pregnancy?
A) Because they carry a 1-2% risk of miscarriage.
B) Because the results from both tests take two to four weeks to obtain.
C) Because they are both rather painful, while an ultrasound is noninvasive and painless.
D) Because they both carry an unacceptable rate of "false positive" results.
Answer: A
Q3) A movement to improve the human species by letting only specific people with desirable characteristics procreate is called _______________.
Answer: eugenics
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World: Physical,
Perceptual, and Motor Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT currently used to help children with autism spectrum disorders lead satisfying and productive lives?
A) providing appropriate treatments
B) using certain medications
C) providing supportive, responsive environments
D) early-life institutionalization
Answer: D
Q2) According to ____ systems theory, learning to walk involves many distinct skills that are organized and reorganized over time to meet specific goals.
A) teratogenic
B) dynamic
C) fluid
D) static
Answer: B
Q3) By the age of 24 months, most children can climb steps, walk backward, and kick a ball.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of Thought and Language:
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) The three formulae that children use to express their ideas in only two words are actor + action, action + object, and possessor + possession.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Within Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children demonstrate ____ when they adjust their existing cognitive schemes around new information or experiences that are inconsistent with those schemes.
A) assimilation
B) reversing
C) accommodation
D) egocentrism
Q3) Mia likes to kick soccer balls. She has developed a mental structure for kicking that may be applied to different situations. This mental structure for kicking would best be described as
A) a scheme.
B) a fuzzy cognition.
C) an intonation.
D) an expressive style.
Q4) A(n) _______________ is an early infant vowel-like sound.
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Chapter 5: Entering the Social World: Socioemotional
Development in Infancy and Early Childhood
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Q1) You are going to start a new business aimed at providing day care for children of working parents. Describe four things you could do at your center to foster secure attachments in the children that come to it.
Q2) Many different factors contribute to the nature of attachment relationships between children and their parents, but the most important is
A) the age at which parents begin fostering an attachment with their children.
B) the number of siblings in the home.
C) the interactions between parents and their babies.
D) genetic considerations.
Q3) When children play alone but remain aware of and interested in what another child is doing, they are engaging in ____ play.
A) collaborative
B) imitative
C) onlooker
D) parallel
Q4) When children see their parents helping and caring for others, the parents are said to _______________ prosocial behavior and the children will learn to behave prosocially.
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Chapter 6: Off to School: Cognitive and Physical Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) By the age of ____ years, most children have learned the addition tables so well that the sums of single digit numbers can be retrieved from memory rather than recalculated.
A) eight or nine
B) six or seven
C) five or six
D) three or four
Q2) Research is mixed regarding the outcomes of childhood participation in organized sports, with both benefits and hazards having been identified.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The National Association for Sport and Physical Fitness recommends that physical education classes focus on activities that can be sustained through adulthood, such as A) dodge ball.
B) pull-ups.
C) touch football.
D) walking.
Q4) Compare and contrast metacognitive knowledge and metamemory.
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Chapter 7: Expanding Social Horizons: Socioemotional Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) What are the five different types of children that are typically found in a classroom? List and describe each type, and briefly discuss some of the qualities of the two that are expanded upon by your chapter.
Q2) Gabe tends to be very aggressive with his siblings and peers, and he is doing poorly in school. If he is this way primarily because of parenting, he probably receives ____ parenting in his home.
A) authoritarian
B) authoritative
C) uninvolved
D) permissive
Q3) Children and adolescents tend to befriend others who are similar to themselves and, as time passes, become more similar to their friends in attitudes and values.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Friendships serve many important purposes, one of which is mutual support and caring. When two friends spend a lot of their time together discussing each other's personal problems, they are engaging in co-_______________.
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Chapter 8: Rites of Passage: Physical and Cognitive
Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Jewell wants to play on her high school basketball team, and speaks with her parents about this desire. Her parents understand that there are many benefits to participation in organized sports, but they are also rightly concerned that about ____ percent of high school athletes will be injured and will require some form of medical treatment.
A) 2
B) 6
C) 12
D) 15
Q2) If you were asked to develop an effective program for preventing eating disorders in teens, you should A) utilize psychoactive medication. B) teach the importance of resisting social pressure to be thin. C) create a highly structured environment in which the teens have little personal input. D) avoid teaching about specific diets.
Q3) _______________ suggested that males and females consider morality differently, with boys focusing more on justice and girls focusing more on relationships.
Q4) The _______________ level is Kohlberg's highest level of moral reasoning.
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Chapter 9: Moving into the Adult Social World:
Socioemotional Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Teenagers are more likely to engage in sexual activity when parents
A) actively discourage sexual activity.
B) encourage dependence.
C) remain emotionally attached.
D) fail to monitor their activities.
Q2) Approximately one-third of adolescents experiment with _______________ during their teenage years.
Q3) In the final phase of ethnic identity development, an adolescent from a minority status group will give up any real ownership of the family's cultural and ethnic background and will immerse herself completely in the majority culture.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Around 20% of high school seniors work at a part-time job.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Adolescent females are more likely to describe their first sexual relationship as being with someone they _______________.
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Q6) Discuss three reasons why sexually active adolescents do not use birth control..
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Chapter 10: Becoming an Adult: Physical, Cognitive, and Personality Development in Young Adulthood
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Q1) Faced with the prospect of voting for or against a state law that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Roberto considers many factors. He thinks about his own family and friends, his religion, his cultural upbringing, and his feelings about sexual orientation and gender identity Roberto is using ____ judgment to determine his own position on this issue.
A) formal operational
B) reflective
C) didactic
D) egalitarian
Q2) One of the most likely reasons for the typical developmental path for crystallized intelligence is that
A) practice tends to improve performance.
B) inherited skills tend to remain steady across the life span.
C) neuron pruning leads to a significant reduction in mental flexibility.
D) modern nutrition is better today than at any point in history.
Q3) The vast majority of those who quit smoking cigarettes do so on their own.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe the concept of personal control beliefs, both primary and secondary.
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Chapter 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) For couples who get married in the United States today, there is a ____ percent chance that their relationship will end in divorce.
A) 25
B) 33
C) 50
D) 60
Q2) The most common form of family in Western societies is the ____ family, which consists only of parents and children.
A) associative
B) extended
C) nuclear
D) blended
Q3) The greatest worry of most adoptive, foster, and step-parents is that the adoptive child in their life will
A) not physically resemble them.
B) fail to bond with them.
C) lack intelligence.
D) be carrying some undetected genetic disorder.
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Chapter 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood
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Q1) In which ethnic group would you be most likely to see women entering "nontraditional" occupations?
A) There is no difference across different ethnic groups.
B) African American and Asian American
C) European American and Latina
D) Native American and Middle Eastern
Q2) In which country do men average the highest number of hours spent on housework each week?
A) Ukraine
B) Turkey
C) Ireland
D) France
Q3) Sharlene is a working woman in the United States. She works in the profession that is most dominated by women, as more than 95% of those in the field are female. What is her occupation?
A) event planning
B) construction
C) social work
D) speech pathologist
Q4) According to Kahlil Gibran, "_______________ is love made visible."
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Chapter 13: Making It in Midlife: The Unique Challenges of Middle Adulthood
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Q1) With regard to male reproductive functioning, which of the following statements is the most accurate?
A) Because older men are less likely to have sex regularly, viable sperm count increases with age.
B) There are no changes in quantity or quality of sperm with age except among men with heart problems.
C) Men typically experience a decline in the quantity of sperm that they produce as they age.
D) Because of prostate shrinkage, men are often unable to have erections at all after age 70.
Q2) Fluid intelligence is to the ____ of intelligence as crystallized intelligence is to the ____ of intelligence.
A) pragmatics; mechanics
B) cultural aspects; sociological aspects
C) mechanics; pragmatics
D) sociological aspects; cultural aspects
Q3) One function that grandparents serve relates to the _______________ dimension, which involves passing on family history to grandchildren.
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Chapter 14: The Personal Context of Later Life: Physical, Cognitive, and Mental Health Issues
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Q1) Research indicates that, by their late 70s, approximately _____ of older adults have presbycusis.
A) one-quarter
B) one-half
C) three-quarters
D) one-third
Q2) Since 2010, the rate of growth of older adults in ____ is the highest in the industrialized world.
A) India
B) Japan
C) China
D) The United States of America
Q3) Which of the following factors is NOT involved in helping a person become wise?
A) general personal conditions
B) specific expertise conditions
C) facilitative life contexts
D) developmental and social challenges
Q4) Transient ischemic attacks may be an early warning sign of an impending stroke.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Social Aspects of Later Life: Psychosocial,
Retirement, Relationship, and Societal Issues
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Q1) Laura has been living in the same house for over 20 years. She has recently become widowed, and she no longer needs that much space. In fact, she has trouble keeping up with all of the work needed to keep the house clean and neat. When her friends suggest that she sell the house and move into someplace smaller, she says, "I really should, but I just can't leave my home!" Clearly Laura feels a sense of ________ in her house.
A) foundation
B) familiarity
C) place
D) support
Q2) A(n) ____ is the process by which people reflect on the events and experiences of their years.
A) applied behavior analysis
B) integrity affirmation
C) life review
D) longevity encapsulation
Q3) The longest-lasting relationship most people have is that with their spouse or life partner.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Final Passage: Dying and Bereavement
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Q1) According to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the final stage of dealing with one's own pending death is _______________.
Q2) Imagine you in the home of Orthodox Jews during mourning. Which of the following would you expect to see?
A) The elders would be leading a "celebration of life".
B) The adults would be toasting the deceased using hard liquor.
C) All of the mirrors in the house would all be covered.
D) The women would cut off locks of their hair on the left and right sides of their heads.
Q3) Bereavement concerns the ways in which we express our grief.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ____ is the sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss.
A) Bereavement
B) Grief
C) Mourning
D) Ache
Q5) _______________ is the practice of ending a person's life for reasons of mercy.
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