Educational Psychology Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Educational Psychology explores how people learn and develop within educational settings, examining the psychological principles that underlie teaching, learning, motivation, classroom management, and assessment. The course covers theories of cognitive, emotional, and social development, individual differences among learners, and the impact of cultural and environmental factors on educational outcomes. By connecting theory to practice, students learn strategies for creating inclusive and effective learning environments, fostering student engagement, and supporting diverse learners needs. This foundational course equips future educators, counselors, and education professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance student achievement and well-being.
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Human Development A Cultural Approach 2nd Edition by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
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Chapter 1: A Cultural Approach to Human Development
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Q1) The Dharmashastras include four life courses that were reflective of the stages of a man's life.What important period of life is missing from this model of life stages?
A)infancy and early childhood
B)marriage and parenthood
C)grandparenting
D)end of life
Answer: A
Q2) Sigmund Freud divided human development into ____ stages.
A)psychosexual
B)psychosocial
C)psychobiological
D)psychocognitive
Answer: A
Q3) According to Erikson,what is the developmental challenge during infancy?
A)trust vs.mistrust
B)autonomy vs.shame and doubt
C)initiative vs.guilt
D)industry vs.inferiority
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Genetics and Prenatal Development
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Q1) Your friend has hemophilia and was worried that he could pass it to his offspring when he had children.What would you tell him?
A)He is probably correct,he will pass hemophilia on.
B)Hemophilia is an X-linked disorder and it would be impossible for him to pass it to any male offspring.It would be possible for his female offspring to be carriers,though.
C)X-linked disorders are not inherited; he has no worries
D)Since he has hemophilia,he is probably sterile and unable to father children.
Answer: B
Q2) By the end of the third week,the neural tube begins to form.This structure will eventually become ____.
A)the skull and torso
B)the legs and arms
C)the spinal cord and brain
D)the lungs and the digestive system
Answer: C
Q3) What are two consequences of a folic acid deficiency?
Answer: Anencephaly: part of the brain is missing or deformed.Spina bifida: the spine is deformed and does not close.
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Child
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Q1) ____ occurs when we combine information from both eyes for perceiving depth and motion.
A)Stereo vision
B)Myopic vision
C)Binocular vision
D)Monocular vision
Answer: C
Q2) Why is it important for parents to remember that a lot of the crying that infants do in their early life occurs for no particular reason?
A)It triggers distress in those around the infants.
B)It is thought to communicate important information.
C)It is just a way for infants to increase lung volume.
D)It has no communicative purpose.
Answer: A
Q3) What is kangaroo care?
Answer: This refers to the practice of putting preterm babies on their caregiver's chest in skin-to-skin contact.This is soothing for both the parent and baby and has a number of beneficial health effects: regulates body functions,increases weight gain,reduces crying,increases sleep,and is correlated with lower mortality.
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Chapter 4: Infancy
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Q1) Height during the first year of life increases ____.
A)very quickly in the beginning and slows down
B)slowly in the beginning and increases very quickly
C)at a slow,even rate
D)unevenly in spurts
Q2) During the first few weeks of life,an infant may show the emotion of ____; but it is rare that he or she may show the emotion of ____ during the first year of life.
A)shame; interest
B)guilt; distress
C)pleasure; sadness
D)embarrassment; anger
Q3) Object permanence is not just a test of knowledge of the properties of objects,but also of ____.
A)short-term memory
B)long-term memory
C)episodic memory
D)semantic memory
Q4) How have researchers tested memory in nonverbal infants?
Q5) Give an example of how social referencing is adaptive for babies.
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Chapter 5: Toddlerhood
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Q1) What is the term that indicates that toddlers apply grammatical rules even to words that are an exception to the rule,such as "mouses" for mice and "foots" for feet?
A)overregularization
B)underregularization
C)hypergeneralization
D)hypogeneralization
Q2) Sex refers to ____.
A)an individual's emotional and sexual desire to be with another person
B)the cultural categories of "male" or "female"
C)the biological status of being male or female
D)an individual's perception of oneself as being male or female
Q3) ____ is the term that describes when the mother decides the time has come for the child to stop breast-feeding.
A)Colicking
B)Weaning
C)Lactating
D)Latching
Q4) Why is attachment not assessed using the Strange Situation during infancy?
Q5) Define and give an example of scaffolding.
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Chapter 6: Early Childhood
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Q1) ____ is involved in the transfer of information from short-term memory to long-term memory.
A)The hippocampus
B)The reticular formation
C)The temporal lobe
D)The cerebellum
Q2) Layla is 3 years old.How many teeth would you expect her to have?
A)10
B)15
C)20
D)25
Q3) Which of the following best describes gross motor development in early childhood?
A)Gross motor development in early childhood extends abilities that first appear in toddlerhood.
B)Gross motor development in early childhood regresses to an earlier state.
C)Gross motor development in early childhood is unpredictable.
D)Gross motor development in early childhood is dependent upon fine motor development.
Q4) Describe two characteristics of children that put them at risk of being abused.
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Chapter 7: Middle Childhood
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Q1) What does IQ represent?
A)individual difference quotient
B)individual quotient
C)intelligence quotient
D)interpersonal quotient
Q2) In regards to middle childhood,the overall finding of the research that used the wristwatch beepers was that middle childhood is a time of ____.
A)great turbulence
B)remarkable contentment and emotional stability
C)considerable shifting of emotions and feelings
D)general unhappiness due to a lack of independence that most children believed they deserved
Q3) About how many children in the United States and Canada will experience their parents' divorce in middle childhood?
A)a quarter (25%)
B)nearly half (50%)
C)almost three quarters (75%)
D)nearly all (92%)
Q4) What is the Flynn effect and what is its cause?
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Chapter 8: Adolescence
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Q1) Adolescents from ??????????________ countries who work are more likely to have disposable income than in _______ countries.
A)developing; developed
B)Western; Eastern
C)developed; developing
D)Asian; South American
Q2) Even though state law requires all drivers of motorcycles and ATVs wear helmets,Roberto refuses to wear one.Arguing with his father,Roberto makes the claim that he is a skilled driver and the reason why there are so many motorcycle accidents is because other drivers lack skills and don't pay attention.Roberto is confident he will never get into a motorcycle accident and will not wear a helmet while riding.Which of the following best describes Roberto's cognitive limitation?
A)imaginary audience
B)personal fable
C)mnemonic device
D)concrete operations
Q3) How is the ability to think about an ideal self and a feared self tied to formal operational thinking abilities?
Q4) Briefly describe a puberty ritual of a non-Western culture.
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Chapter 9: Emerging Adulthood
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Q1) When asked,"Do you feel that you have reached adulthood?" the majority of emerging adults respond: ____.
A)Yes.
B)No.
C)In some ways.
D)I've felt like an adult for years.
Q2) Your roommate is Catholic and you and he have had some very involved and interesting conversations regarding religion.After many such discussions,you realize that although your roommate indicates that he is Catholic,he really does not believe,practice,or adhere to much of Catholicism.From your knowledge of emerging adults,are his thoughts typical?
A)No,most emerging adults' religious thoughts are consistent with their denominations.
B)No,most emerging adults have no interest in religion.
C)Yes,most emerging adults who align themselves with a religion do not necessarily agree with all the beliefs of that denomination.
D)Yes,most emerging adults are very religious.
Q3) Compare and contrast the college experience of the Japanese with that from one other country.
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Chapter 10: Young Adulthood
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Q1) Louis Terman,one of the original developers of the Stanford-Binet test,began a study in the 1920s of 1,500 children with exceptionally high IQ scores and as compared to the control group,these "Termites," as they were referred to,____.
A)had a great deal of personal distress and were often depressed,anxious,and manifested high hostility towards others
B)had a great deal of educational and occupational success,with dozens of patents and hundreds of books
C)had a higher rate of alcoholism,divorce,and mental disorders
D)were similar in few ways,illustrating that IQ has very little predictive value
Q2) Your friend is discussing his sex life with you.He is a little worried that his wife rarely experiences orgasm when they engage in sexual activity.What would you tell him?
A)Only 30% of women report always experiencing orgasm during intercourse,so his wife's experience is typical.
B)44% of women never orgasm,so he should be somewhat worried.
C)99% of women always orgasm during sexual activity,so there is definitely a problem.
D)70% of women report always experiencing orgasm,so there might be a problem.
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Chapter 11: Middle Adulthood
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Q1) Your mother and father just divorced.You talk to your mother frequently and she has indicated to you that she is worried that she will live the rest of her life alone-after all,she'll be 50 soon.Are her concerns well founded?
A)Yes,only 33% of women who get divorced after age 40 remarry.
B)Yes,only 10% of women who get divorced after age 40 remarry.
C)No,66% of women who get divorced after age 40 remarry.
D)No,90% of women who get divorced after age 40 remarry.
Q2) What is the most common type of cancer among men?
A)breast cancer
B)prostate cancer
C)skin cancer
D)lung cancer
Q3) According to Indian culture,what is prauda?
A)mature adulthood
B)motherhood
C)young adulthood
D)pregnancy
Q4) How does marital satisfaction in mid-life compare to marital satisfaction in earlier parts of adulthood in Western countries?
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Chapter 12: Late Adulthood
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Q1) The cerebellum is ____,whereas the frontal lobes are ____.
A)responsible for planning and judgment; involved in balance and coordination
B)involved in balance and coordination; responsible for planning and judgment
C)responsible for auditory and visual processing; involved in sensory and motor skills
D)involved in sensory and motor skills; responsible for auditory and visual processing
Q2) What percent of divorces take place after individuals are 65 years of age or older in the United States and Canada?
A)1%
B)11%
C)21%
D)31%
Q3) Your grandmother used to play piano at her community organization for many years.Lately,she has had some difficulty when she plays.She is having difficulty with what type of memory?
A)task
B)procedural
C)instructional
D)performance
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Chapter 13: Death and Afterlife Beliefs
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Q1) The deaths that cause the most grief are those of parents,spouses,and ____.
A)close friends
B)children
C)grandparents
D)siblings
Q2) Your 8-year-old cousin was killed in an automobile accident in which your uncle was driving.The loss of your cousin has been extremely difficult for your aunt and uncle,who are feeling high levels of distress.You are worried that they are at risk for ____.
A)neglecting your other cousin
B)drug abuse
C)alcoholism
D)divorce
Q3) What is the principle that indicates that after about 50 doublings,cells lose their ability to replicate?
A)Hayflick limit
B)cell limit
C)replication limit
D)HELA limit
Q4) What is the Ghost Month and who celebrates it?
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