Educational Psychology Final
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Educational Psychology explores the principles, theories, and applications of psychology within educational settings. This course examines how students learn and develop, the factors that influence motivation and achievement, and the diverse cognitive, emotional, and social needs of learners. Topics include cognitive development, learning theories, classroom management, assessment, and the impact of individual differences such as culture, ability, and background. Students will gain an understanding of how to use psychological research to create effective teaching strategies, foster positive learning environments, and support all learners academic and personal growth.
Recommended Textbook Human Development A Life-Span View 3rd Edition by Christine Ateah
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Chapter 1: The Study of Human Development
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Q1) Which of the following can range from -1.0 to 1.0?
A) a correlation coefficient
B) a dependent variable
C) an independent variable
D) a sample
Answer: A
Q2) Luke and his identical twin Danny are attending an opera. Luke really seems to enjoy the experience, while Danny comments, "I would rather eat glass than listen to this music again." What kinds of forces best explain the reactions of the twins?
A) biological forces
B) psychological forces
C) sociocultural forces
D) life-cycle forces
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Biological Foundations
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Q1) Despite being raised in two very different environments, identical twins Tina and Ginny receive a similar score on a shyness scale. What do these results suggest about the range of reactions for shyness?
A) It is small.
B) It is large.
C) It is inverse.
D) It is polygenetic.
Answer: A
Q2) Which prenatal assessment technique requires the culturing of skin cells acquired from a fluid sample?
A) genetic screening
B) ultrasound
C) chorionic villus sampling
D) amniocentesis
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Tools for Exploring the World
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Q1) Which child is most likely to be the tallest?
A) Kristin, who has a tall father and a short mother
B) Megan, who has a short father and a tall mother
C) Kara, who has a tall mother and a tall father
D) Morgan who has three out of four tall grandparents.
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following is the best example of a fine motor skill?
A) crawling
B) feeding yourself with a spoon
C) running in a race
D) climbing to the top of a large hill
Answer: B
Q3) Yvette is a malnourished child. If her parents are typical, how will they most likely react?
A) They will probably become upset with Yvette's hyperactivity.
B) They will probably interact less with Yvette because she is so lethargic.
C) They will probably take more responsibility for making sure Yvette grows socially and psychologically.
D) They will probably stop trying to feed Yvette.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Entering the Social World
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Q1) Which baby is in John Bowlby's preattachment phase?
A) Sylvia, who smiles equally at people, stuffed animals, and balls
B) Patricia, who clings to her mother more than she clings to anyone else
C) Sybil, who is 7 months old
D) Gloria, who cries when she is alert and her mother is not paying her any attention
Q2) Carmela is struggling in the "autonomy versus guilt and shame" stage of psychosocial development. What aspect of her psychosocial development will result from her successful resolution of this conflict?
A) hope
B) wariness
C) will
D) purpose
Q3) Which aspect of Sunshine Daycare Centre's advertisement is inconsistent with your textbook's description of quality daycare?
A) low teacher/student ratios
B) many educational programs
C) new, energetic staff each day
D) regular, frequent parent-teacher meetings
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Chapter 5: Growing and Learning in the Preschool Years
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Q1) Which of the following is the best example of overregularization?
A) saying "horse" instead of "hose"
B) saying "houses" instead of "homes"
C) saying "flunked" instead of "failed"
D) saying "runned" instead of "ran"
Q2) When asked to describe why storm clouds travel so slowly in the sky, Jacqueline gives several interesting answers. Which provides the best example of animism?
A) "Since they have no legs, they have to crawl."
B) "If they were going the other way, they would go faster."
C) "Because the wind does not blow as high way up in the sky."
D) "The dark parts of the cloud are heavier and slow it down."
Q3) According to Vygotsky, what kind of speech is another term for thought?
A) private speech
B) inner speech
C) telegraphic speech
D) tertiary speech
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Chapter 6: Interacting and the Work of Play
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Q1) Little Rowan has just witnessed yet another argument between his parents. He feels guilty that mommy and daddy are fighting and he withdraws to his room. According to research, what happens to children such as Rowan when they see constant conflict between their parents?
A) they run away from home
B) they are prone to chronic disease
C) they withdraw emotionally
D) they do poorly in school
Q2) With which person is Rosalind most likely to act altruistically?
A) Demi, whom Rosalind has never met
B) Masja, who was in Rosalind's class last year
C) Hayley, who is Rosalind's little sister
D) Dianne, who is a friend of Rosalind's mother
Q3) According to research by the Family Lifestyles Project, how do children raised by counterculture parents differ from children raised by parents with more traditional values?
A) They have fewer stereotypes regarding occupations.
B) They play with same-sex peers.
C) The boys enjoy physical play.
D) The girls enjoy reading and drawing.
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Chapter 7: Off to School
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Q1) Which of the following is one of the three purposes of writing?
A) to market
B) to organize
C) to persuade
D) to describe
Q2) Julie's intelligence quotient is 100. Since she is 12 years old, what must her mental age be?
A) 6
B) 10
C) 12
D) 24
Q3) Hulme and Snowling (2009) conducted a study in which they attempted to identify the best method for training children with reading disabilities. What did they conclude?
A) No techniques led to improved reading.
B) Only techniques focusing on articulatory awareness were effective.
C) Only techniques focusing on sound manipulation were effective.
D) Techniques focusing on phonological awareness were effective.
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Chapter 8: Expanding Social Horizons
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Q1) Who is most likely to be distressed by the fact that she has a new baby brother?
A) Annabella, who is 2 years old
B) Noni, who has two older sisters
C) Monique, who has one older brother
D) Patsy, who has four siblings
Q2) Which of the following attributes determines a good leader?
A) popularity
B) age
C) competence
D) key skills
Q3) Paul talks of his friends as being important to him because they play with him and are nice to him. How old is Paul most likely to be?
A) 4 years old
B) 8 years old
C) 10 years old
D) 12 years old
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Chapter 9: Rites of Passage
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Q1) While teens and adults seem to make decisions using a similar process, the outcomes are often different. Why is this so?
A) because of the way adolescents weigh the desirability of different consequences
B) because adults do not take risks as often as adolescents
C) because adolescents do not appreciate all of the options available to them
D) because adults have greater frontal lobe maturity
Q2) What does the abbreviation BMI stand for?
A) base metabolic indices
B) body metabolic indices
C) base mass index
D) body mass index
Q3) When discussing the Heinz dilemma, Travis says, "I wouldn't take the drug because I would not want anyone thinking of me as a thief." Which stage of moral reasoning does this type of logic fit best with?
A) the first stage
B) the second stage
C) the third stage
D) the fourth stage
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Chapter 10: Moving into the Adult Social World
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Q1) Ferris is considering driving his car onto a lake that appears to be frozen, but may not be safe. He thinks to himself, "Only dummies fall through the ice in their cars and I am no dummy, so I will drive on the ice even though I am not sure it's safe." What concept does Ferris's decision exemplify?
A) an imaginary audience
B) a personal fable
C) an illusion of invulnerability
D) learned helplessness
Q2) Tim was born in Canada. His father is African and his mother is Japanese. If he is in the third state of ethnic identity development, what is he most likely to consider himself?
A) Canadian
B) African Canadian
C) Japanese
D) Canadian with roots in both Africa and Japan
Q3) In what industry are most jobs currently in Canada?
A) the manufacturing industry
B) the service industry
C) the agriculture industry
D) the forestry industry
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Chapter 11: Becoming an Adult
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Q1) What is BMI?
A) a measure of cholesterol in the blood
B) a personality test
C) a device used to assess binge drinking
D) an index related to total body mass
Q2) Which of the following phrases would complete the analogy, "Crystallized intelligence is to fluid intelligence as?"
A) putting together a puzzle is to learning to garden
B) a quiz is to an exam
C) childhood is to adulthood
D) math is to language
Q3) Bernice is very interested in studying how the energy needs of the human body change through the lifespan. In other words, what is Bernice interested in studying?
A) cholesterol
B) metabolism
C) lipoproteins
D) addiction
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Chapter 12: Being with Others
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Q1) Jerry and Edie broke up because he was Jewish and she was Lutheran. Which of the following characteristics of a desirable mate best explains the reason for their break-up?
A) social refinement
B) intelligence
C) social status
D) cultural values
Q2) Thirty-six-year-old Alexander and 25-year-old Jonathan are typical first-time fathers. Which of the following would we expect?
A) Alexander will spend more time with his child than Jonathan will with his.
B) Alexander and Jonathan will spend about the same amount of time with their children.
C) Jonathan will spend more time with his child than Alexander will with his.
D) Jonathan will spend more time with his child if his child is male and Alexander's is female.
Q3) According to Flynn (2007), how does one define the quality of one's friendships?
A) by the material benefits obtained
B) by the satisfaction derived from the relationship
C) by the hope derived from the relationship
D) by the amount of time spent with one another
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Chapter 13: Work and Leisure
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Q1) Which strategy would be most effective at reducing child care-related job absenteeism in parents?
A) opening a daycare centre at the job site
B) eliminating a company's "glass ceiling"
C) finding affordable, quality care
D) applying the "reasonable woman" standard in the job setting
Q2) Who is most likely to be most concerned about child care?
A) Gina, who is a professional
B) Mary, who works full-time
C) Kristin, who is a blue-collar worker
D) Lisa, who works part-time
Q3) Who is most likely to experience burnout?
A) Michael, who is a factory worker
B) Natalie, who is a business executive
C) Tom, who is a Grade 3 teacher
D) Juliana, who is a musician
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Chapter 14: Making It in Midlife
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Q1) What is the primary reason that elderly women show a decline in sexual activity?
A) a normal physiological lack of interest
B) failure to achieve orgasm
C) the lack of a willing or appropriate partner
D) pain associated with vaginal changes
Q2) In 2011, approximately what percentage of parents report having a male adult child still living at home?
A) 39%
B) 48%
C) 57%
D) 63%
Q3) If an individual is characterized by what Erikson called "stagnation," what is that person most likely unable to do?
A) make meaningful appraisals concerning hassles
B) form a superego
C) contribute to a society's continuation
D) think in an encapsulated manner
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Chapter 15: The Personal Context of Later Life
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Q1) Why is it that the oldest-old are able to live long lives and considered to be hardy?
A) because their wealth affords them excellent medical care
B) because they have not been exposed to as many toxins during their lifetimes
C) because they have a high threshold for disease
D) because they have typically made more healthy lifestyle choices across their lifespans
Q2) As a typical 80-year-old, which of the following situations would have decreased significantly for Joan from when she was 20?
A) lung size
B) ability to take a big deep breath
C) chance for developing a COPD
D) chance for being short of breath following exercise
Q3) In order to depict the number of people of different ages in the population, what graphing technique is used?
A) demography
B) census-taking
C) worldometers
D) population pyramid
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Chapter 16: Social Aspects of Later Life
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Q1) What do we call the demands exerted on one's self by one's surroundings?
A) an environmental press
B) maximum comfort
C) internal continuity
D) competence
Q2) Herb is 73 years old. His family and friends suddenly feel uncomfortable around him. Because he feels very uncomfortable going to a restaurant by himself, he often stays at home alone. What has most likely happened to Herb?
A) He has recently joined a social convoy.
B) He is experiencing generativity.
C) He just retired.
D) His wife died.
Q3) While interacting with 85-year-old Ester, her son calls her "a crazy and stupid old lady." What type of abuse is this an example of?
A) psychological abuse
B) sexual abuse
C) physical abuse
D) verbal abuse
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Chapter 17: The Final Passage
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Q1) Beverly's husband died in Afghanistan. According to Derman (2000), for approximately how long will it take for Beverly's grief to diminish?
A) 6 months
B) 1-2 years
C) 3-5 years
D) 5-10 years
Q2) What, according to Kübler-Ross, is an "appropriate death?"
A) one that is fast and relatively pain-free
B) one that allows the dying person to say goodbye to family and friends
C) one that occurs when the person is ready to die
D) one that meets the needs of the dying person
Q3) What does grief work refer to?
A) the social side of coming to terms with bereavement
B) the psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement
C) the physical side of coming to terms with bereavement
D) the financial side of coming to terms with bereavement
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