Educational Psychology Exam Questions
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Educational Psychology explores the theories, principles, and research findings related to how individuals learn and develop within educational settings. The course examines cognitive, emotional, and social factors that influence learning, as well as motivation, classroom management, assessment strategies, and the impact of individual differences such as intelligence, culture, and disability. By integrating psychological theory with practical application, students learn to design effective instructional environments and support diverse learners success in both traditional and modern educational contexts.
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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) Your roommate is a smoker.He really would like to quit and has been reading about Freudian theory.He thinks that he is fixated at the oral stage and that he should make an appointment with a clinician who specializes in psychosexual therapy.What would you tell him?
A)Few professionals adhere to Freud's theory,even psychoanalysts,so he should try something else.
B)He should probably try it.Freud would say that he was orally fixated.
C)It sounds to you like he is actually anally fixated.
D)It will take time,but psychoanalysis should probably work for him.
Answer: A
Q2) Which theory of human development has endured better?
A)Freud's psychosexual theory
B)Erikson's psychosocial theory
C)Gilbert's biosocial theory
D)Hall's bio-behavioral theory
Answer: B
Q3) Describe two ways that Homo sapiens was different from earlier Homo species. Answer: Homo sapiens have smaller and lighter bones,smaller jaws and teeth and a much bigger brain.
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Chapter 2: Genetics and Prenatal Development
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Q1) How much weight should a woman gain during pregnancy (provide an approximate range)? Provide one diet or exercise recommendation.
Answer: Women should gain between 25-35 pounds.They should drink more fluids and they should eat plenty of fruits and vegetables,especially iron-rich foods,such as leafy greens.
Q2) Which of the following is a correct sequence of development during the germinal period?
A)placenta,implantation,blastocyst
B)blastocyst,implantation,placenta
C)placenta,blastocyst,implantation
D)implantation,placenta,blastocyst
Answer: B
Q3) From a global perspective,which of the following is the most common teratogen to affect pregnancies?
A)lead
B)malnutrition
C)alcohol
D)rubella
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Child
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Q1) Breast-fed babies have been shown to have a lower rate of illnesses and disease such as diphtheria,pneumonia,ear infections,and diarrhea.Which of the following is an explanation for this lower rate?
A)breast milk contains a high level of white blood cells
B)breast milk contains antibodies
C)breast milk contains penicillin
D)breast milk contains a high level of platelets
Answer: B
Q2) Nursing helps the mother return to her pre-pregnancy weight.Nursing requires the mother to burn how many additional calories per day?
A)10-400
B)500-1,000
C)2,000-2,500
D)4,000-4,500
Answer: B
Q3) Give one reason that a woman would deliver by c-section (not including convenience of scheduling).
Answer: Failure to progress or a breech birth are two reasons for a c-section.
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Chapter 4: Infancy
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Q1) An expression of happiness in response to interacting with others is called ____.
A)social copycatting
B)social contagiousness
C)social with-it-ness
D)social smile
Q2) 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
Q3) What type of development includes more skilled movements of the hands,such as grasping and manipulating objects?
A)fine motor
B)gross motor
C)cephalocaudal motor
D)whole-body motor
Q4) Are there sex differences in length and / or weight at birth? Does this pattern continue? Explain.
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Chapter 5: Toddlerhood
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Q1) What cognitive ability helps toddlers to develop sociomoral emotions?
A)self-awareness
B)self-esteem
C)self-report
D)self-reflection
Q2) The ability to repeat actions observed at an earlier time is ____.
A)secondary circular reactions
B)object permanence
C)action memory
D)deferred imitation
Q3) 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
Q4) Describe the language environment of a country other than the U.S.
Q5) Describe two milestones of gross motor development in toddlerhood.
Q6) Define object permanence and give an example of how a child's behavior might be affected if s / he has acquired this ability.
Q7) What does Arnett mean by "controlled elimination"?
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Chapter 6: Early Childhood
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Q1) If you were an authoritative parent,how would you handle a child who only wanted to eat a banana split for dinner?
A)"It would be much better to eat a healthy dinner first and have a banana split for dessert if you are not full."
B)"Great,let's go for it!"
C)"Absolutely not,under no circumstance will I allow that!"
D)"Whatever,I don't care."
Q2) What has been the conclusion of five decades of research,including more than 300 studies,regarding children watching violence on TV? Watching TV violence ____.
A)helps to dissipate aggression levels in children
B)reduces overall aggression in young children
C)increases children's aggression
D)strangely promotes children's helping behavior
Q3) In the United States,what percentage of children has no siblings?
A)5%
B)10%
C)15%
D)20%
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) Agility is ____.
A)synchronization of different body parts
B)moving quickly and precisely
C)a response to changing information
D)the ability to manage equilibrium
Q2) What is one of the major criticisms of intelligence tests?
A)they're not accurate
B)they're not relevant to academic or professional behavior
C)they're culturally biased
D)they're too difficult for most people
Q3) Great inventors such as Leonardo da Vinci,Benjamin Franklin,and Alexander Graham Bell all possess which of Sternberg's triarchic theory of intelligence?
A)creative intelligence
B)practical intelligence
C)analytical intelligence
D)logical-mathematical intelligence
Q4) Why does self-esteem decrease from early childhood to middle childhood?
Q5) Finish the sentence below as if you were a 6-year-old boy,and again as if you were a 12-year-old boy: "I am "
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Chapter 8: Adolescence
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the primary symptoms for anorexia nervosa?
A)excessive worry and anxiety,significant difficulty controlling one's worry,and the feeling of being wound up
B)inability to maintain body weight at least 85% of normal for height,fear of gaining weight,lack of menstruation,and distorted body image
C)episodes of binge eating,a sense of lack of control over eating during the episodes,and inappropriate compensatory behaviors in order to prevent weight gain
D)depressed mood most of the day nearly every day,and feeling sad or empty
Q2) Over 2,000 years ago,what Greek philosopher observed that youth "are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine"?
A)Aristotle
B)Pythagoras
C)Heraclitus
D)Socrates
Q3) Give an example of a primary and a secondary sex characteristic.
Q4) How do males from the Dioula culture of the Ivory Coast learn to weave? How does your answer illustrate Vygotsky's theory?
Q5) Briefly describe a puberty ritual of a non-Western culture.
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Chapter 9: Emerging Adulthood
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Q1) In a study of college students at six sites around the country,what percentage of young men reported viewing Internet pornography?
A)87%
B)77%
C)67%
D)57%
Q2) Use two of Marcia's identity statuses to explain the political beliefs and / or behavior of emerging adults (your answer may include the political extremism of terrorism or protests).
Q3) Discuss the trends of leaving home among emerging adults of different ethnic backgrounds in the U.S.How does this compare to those in European countries? Include pros and cons of "leaving the nest" in your answer.
Q4) According to the text,about ____ of American emerging adults "return to the nest" to live at least once after they leave.
A)10%
B)20%
C)40%
D)60%
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Chapter 10: Young Adulthood
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Q1) To which was sociologist was Hochschild referring when she talked about "the second shift." Is there research to support her claim? Explain.
Q2) Which of the following best summarizes the relationship between intelligence and academic success?
A)intelligence tests are in no way correlated with school success
B)intelligence tests administered at any time are weak predictors of school success
C)intelligence tests administered during infancy and childhood are strongly correlated with academic success
D)intelligence tests administered during childhood and adolescence are moderately correlated with school success
Q3) What percentage of 18- to 30-year-old Americans support homosexual marriage?
A)33%
B)44%
C)55%
D)66%
Q4) Describe two of the three markers of the transition to adulthood.Do you think these will change in future cohorts? Why?
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Chapter 11: Middle Adulthood
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Q1) What country or countries have the highest scores on the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)?
A)European countries
B)African countries
C)Japan
D)South Korea
Q2) Which of the three measures of fluid intelligence decline steeply throughout adulthood?
A)perceptual speed
B)numeric ability
C)spatial orientation
D)vocabulary
Q3) In what developmental time period would you be most likely to hear someone say,"For the first time in my life,I'm okay with the way I look"? Use research to support your answer.
Q4) When asked about their goals in life,midlife adults tend to mention ____.
A)that they already fulfilled all of their goals
B)that they have no goals and are content with having no goals
C)fulfilling the roles they currently have
D)very lofty philosophic goals that they are committed to attaining
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Chapter 12: Late Adulthood
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Q1) Which of the following countries has the lowest rate of those listed of individuals in late adulthood who live,or share co-residents,with her adult children?
A)Denmark
B)Greece
C)Italy
D)Spain
Q2) 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
Q3) What type of memory is involved when an individual remembers how to perform a task or activity involving motor skills?
A)task memory
B)procedural memory
C)instructional memory
D)performance memory
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Chapter 13: Death and Afterlife Beliefs
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Q1) In a survey of 32 countries around the world,which of the following has the greatest degree of skepticism for life after death?
A)Chile
B)Russia
C)the United States
D)the Philippines
Q2) In the Hindu religion,the spirit of a loved one is recognized and honored ____.
A)twice a year
B)once a year
C)once every two years
D)twice every four years
Q3) Subsequent research that has examined Kübler-Ross's theory has found that ____.
A)most terminally ill patients go through her stages just as she described
B)there was very little application of the theory to terminally ill patients
C)it was too complicated and not able to be evaluated through research
D)few terminally ill patients go through her stages in sequence if at all
Q4) If you were to compare the telomeres of healthy centenarians with those who have chronic illnesses (e.g.,heart disease,cancer or diabetes),what would you find? Include a definition of telomeres in your explanation.
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