Educational Psychology Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Educational Psychology explores the scientific study of how people learn and develop within educational settings. The course covers foundational theories of cognitive, emotional, and social development, examining how factors such as motivation, individual differences, classroom environments, and instructional strategies impact learning. Students will analyze research-based practices that enhance teaching effectiveness and promote student achievement, gaining insights into diverse learning needs and the application of psychological principles in designing effective educational interventions and assessments.
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Human Development A Cultural Approach 1st Edition by Jeffrey J. Arnett
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Chapter 1: A Cultural Approach to Human Development
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Q1) Grant is in the 3rd grade and is enthusiastic about learning in school.Beyond recess he enjoys reading books,doing his math homework,and learning new spelling words.He is also confident in his ability to accomplish goals that he has set for himself.Which of Erikson psychosocial stages is Grant in?
A)trust vs.mistrust
B)autonomy vs.shame and doubt
C)initiative vs.guilt
D)industry vs.inferiority
Answer: D
Q2) Human development can be viewed from a stage perspective,or as a gradual,_____ process.
A)continuous
B)disjointed
C)sloping
D)inverted
Answer: A
Q3) Why was bipedal locomotion considered a useful adaptation?
Answer: It may have freed up the hands to do things such as carry things or hold a weapon.These abilities may have helped to ensure survival.
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Chapter 2: Genetics and Prenatal Development
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Q1) During the embryonic period,the endoderm is formed,which will become the ____.
A)skin,hair,nails,sensory organs and nervous system
B)muscles,bones,reproductive system and circulatory system
C)digestive and respiratory systems
D)hormonal and endocrine systems
Answer: C
Q2) Infants born with the effects of rubella (German measles)within the United States have greatly decreased since the 1960s because ____.
A)vaccinations for infectious diseases have increased
B)funding for Medicaid and Medicare have increased
C)fluoride has been added to the water
D)folic acid has been added to grain products
Answer: A
Q3) During the embryonic period
A)the blastocyst forms.
B)the zygote is created.
C)the zygote attaches to the uterine wall.
D)the nervous system develops.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Birth and the Newborn Child
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Q1) A midwife is ____.
A)a female who serves as a surrogate breast for an infant's mother who is unable to lactate
B)generally a female who is trained or has direct experience with the birth process
C)a trained physician who is skilled at monitoring the prenatal period and delivering babies
D)a village elder who is knowledgeable about and connected to the spiritual world
Answer: B
Q2) The earliest sense to develop is
A)taste.
B)touch.
C)vision.
D)hearing.
Answer: B
Q3) What are two variables that correlate with breastfeeding in developed countries?
Answer: -more highly educated mothers are more likely to breast feed. -Older mothers are more likely to breastfeed.
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Chapter 4: Infancy
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Q1) Studies have shown that Chinese children who possess a higher degree of shyness are more likely ____.
A)to have lower academic success and to be socially rejected by their peers
B)to have higher academic success and to be well-liked by their peers
C)to have higher rates of depression and low social standing
D)to have higher rates of anxiety and lower rates of self-regulation
Q2) Do the Bayley Scales of Infant Development,which yield an overall DQ,predict later IQ? Explain.
Q3) Having only used his own children as subjects,Piaget greatly underestimated the influence of ____ on cognitive development.
A)culture
B)genetics
C)the id
D)school
Q4) Describe 3 risk factors for SIDS.
Q5) When do infants first laugh?
A)at about a month of age
B)about a month after the first smile
C)about a month after getting their first tooth
D)about a month after their first birthday
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Chapter 5: Toddlerhood
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Q1) ____ are single words that a toddler uses that can represent different forms of whole sentences.
A)Underextension
B)Overextension
C)Holophrases
D)Fast mapping
Q2) Object permanence is a mechanism that fosters attachment because ____.
A)it includes the realization that the person you see on one occasion is the same person you saw on a previous occasion
B)it allows for a greater psychosocial bond
C)it mellows the temperament of both child and caregiver
D)attachment makes up Piaget's final stage of sensorimotor development.
Q3) About how many synapses will be removed in the frontal cortex from early childhood to adolescence?
A)1/3
B)1/4
C)1/8
D)1/20
Q4) What is synaptic pruning and is it normal?
Q5) Describe two milestones of gross motor development in toddlerhood.
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Chapter 6: Early Childhood
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Q1) Watching TV during young childhood
A)has not been associated with any positive effects on development.
B)is a popular leisure activity all over the world.
C)has been correlated with aggressive thoughts and behaviors,but only among males who were already extremely aggressive before viewing.
D)has not been studied experimentally,therefore no conclusions about causation can be made.
Q2) The narrator of this video tells us that the rate of physical growth slows in the early childhood years.What impact would this have on the food and nutritional requirements of children in this age group?
Q3) Boys with authoritarian parents are more often to show ____,whereas girls more often show ____.
A)aggressiveness and unruliness; anxiousness and unhappiness
B)unhappiness and anxiousness; aggressiveness and unruliness
C)personality disorders and low grades; ADHD and high grades
D)ADHD and high grades; personality disorders and low grades
Q4) What are some benefits of children gaining hand preference?
Q5) Are there sex differences in height and weight between the ages of 3-6 years? Explain.
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Chapter 7: Middle Childhood
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Q1) Your brother just remarried a woman who has been divorced for a year.He is now the stepfather of three children ranging in ages from 2 to 7 years.He is trying to do his best and support his new wife with parenting duties and to show her children that he cares for them.He called last night and was very upset.He found a picture that his oldest stepchild drew and it did not include him.What would you tell him?
A)The biological father probably told the children to draw pictures of the family with him omitted to purposefully hurt his feelings.
B)Not to worry.This picture was probably drawn before he was part of the family
C)You have no idea why his stepchild did this.The stepchild was probably confused.
D)This is typical.There is quite a bit of disruption when a divorce occurs and children typically resent their stepfathers.
Q2) In modern developed countries,children's gender attitudes and behavior during middle childhood ____.
A)become more stereotyped
B)are heavily influenced by their parents
C)become more rigid and less flexible
D)are very accepting and integrated
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Chapter 8: Adolescence
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Q1) In every Western country for which records exist there has been a downward trend in the age of menarche.This trend is known as the ____.
A)secular trend
B)lowering trend
C)early onset trend
D)sooner trend
Q2) David Gilmore (1990)concluded that in most cultures an adolescent boy must demonstrate three capacities before he can be considered a man.
A)perform,promote,and prosper
B)proud,perfect,and polite
C)proficient,pure,and political
D)provide,protect,and procreate
Q3) ____ percentage of American adolescent girls and ____ of boys believe they weigh too much,even though only 15% of girls and 16% of boys are actually overweight by medical standards.
A)Sixty,30%
B)Seventy,25%
C)Eighty,20%
D)Ninety,15%
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Chapter 9: Emerging Adulthood
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Q1) According to Osgood,adolescents and young adults have a high rate of ____,which in turn allows them to engage in deviant behaviors such as alcohol and marijuana use.
A)disregard for social norms
B)testosterone
C)unstructured socializing
D)antisocial tendencies
Q2) Your 26-year-old brother finished college and is working and living by himself.You asked him how it feels to be on his own and he told you he feels like ____.
A)an adult now
B)he is not quite an adult yet,but certainly not a kid
C)he is still an adolescent,but living alone
D)he is fearful of failure
Q3) 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) Based on Buss' cross-cultural research,what was ranked as #1 in importance in mate selection throughout the world? Were any sex differences found? Explain.
Q2) 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,his subjects ____.
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
Q3) 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,____ or higher.
A)120
B)130
C)140
D)150
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Chapter 11: Middle Adulthood
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Q1) In which the following geographical regions would a young son and his family be most likely to live with his parents,who are in middle adulthood?
A)the North Atlantic
B)North America
C)Western Europe
D)Asia
Q2) What type of intelligence involves information processing abilities such as short-term memory,ability to discern relations between visual stimuli,and speed of synthesizing new information?
A)verbal intelligence
B)performance intelligence
C)fluid intelligence
D)crystallized intelligence
Q3) In 2000 in the United States what percentage of persons in middle adulthood had at least one parent who was still alive?
A)10%
B)30%
C)50%
D)70%
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Chapter 12: Late Adulthood
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Q1) Your grandfather works on the New York Times crossword puzzle every day.He has been very good at solving the puzzle and nearly always does.His ability to remember the meaning of words has shown no decline as he has aged,and really shows very little decline for most older adults.What type of memory is this?
A)semantic memory
B)procedural memory
C)episodic memory
D)lexical memory
Q2) Other than natural aging,which of the following are other known factors to increase the risk for hearing loss?
A)smoking cigarettes
B)excess of calcium
C)exposure to sun
D)sleep deprivation
Q3) What percentage of the adult population in the United States smokes today?
A)50%
B)40%
C)30%
D)20%
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Chapter 13: Death and Afterlife Beliefs
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Q1) Your roommate is an avid runner.She runs at least 3 miles every day and generally runs 6 to 8 miles on the weekends.Researchers have suggested that people who run are more likely to have free radicals,which can be damaging to cells.The presence of what substance might help to reduce the damaging effects of free radicals?
A)antichromerase
B)antitelemerase
C)anticancerous
D)antioxidants
Q2) Anxiety about death is highest among those who ____.
A)maintain strong religious faith
B)are atheist or agnostic
C)are unsure or inconsistent about religion
D)believe that they are sinners
Q3) In what part of the lifespan is cancer most common? Explain why.
Q4) The major sources of death in the later stages of the lifespan are ____.
A)homicide and suicide
B)cardiovascular disease and cancer
C)infectious and communicable diseases
D)automobile and home accidents
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