Educational Psychology Question Bank
Course Introduction
Educational Psychology explores the scientific principles underlying learning and teaching processes. This course examines how students acquire, retain, and apply knowledge within educational settings, focusing on cognitive, emotional, and social development. Topics include theories of learning and motivation, individual differences, classroom management, assessment strategies, and the impact of culture on education. Students will analyze real-world case studies and research to develop effective instructional methods and support diverse learners, ultimately fostering a positive and inclusive classroom environment.
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Exploring Lifespan Development 4th Edition by Laura E. Berk
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Chapter 1: History, Theory, and Research Strategies
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Q1) Dr. McBride wants to know if a teacher's use of encouragement in the classroom affects the children's self-esteem. To assign children to treatment conditions, Dr. McBride should __________.
A) carefully distribute the children according to their test scores
B) divide the children so each group has an equal number of boys and girls
C) draw the children's names out of a hat
D) assign the quieter children to the same treatment condition
Answer: C
Q2) A sequential design __________.
A) does not address diversity in developmental outcomes
B) permits researchers to check if cohort effects are operating
C) is less efficient than a longitudinal design
D) makes cross-sectional, but not longitudinal, comparisons
Answer: B
Q3) Ivan Pavlov discovered __________.
A) observational learning
B) classical conditioning
C) the ego's positive contributions to development
D) the clinical method
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Genetic and Environmental Foundations
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Q1) __________ halves the number of chromosomes normally present in body cells.
A) Mitosis
B) Genomic imprinting
C) Cytoplasm
D) Meiosis
Answer: D
Q2) Usually, in vitro fertilization __________.
A) is increasingly successful with age.
B) poses less risk to infant survival than natural conception
C) is used to treat women whose fallopian tubes are permanently damaged
D) involves the wealthy as contractors for infants
Answer: C
Q3) If a family history of intellectual disabilities, psychological disorders, physical defects, or inherited diseases exists, a genetic counselor prepares a __________, which identifies affected relatives in a couple's family tree.
A) pedigree
B) genetic marker
C) maternal blood analysis
D) preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Prenatal Development, Birth, and the Newborn
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Q1) Which mother is most likely to have had inadequate prenatal care?
A) Lupe, age 25
B) Marissa, age 32
C) Rotunda, age 16
D) Janette, age 40
Answer: C
Q2) The __________ folds over to form the __________, or primitive spinal cord.
A) mesoderm; amnion
B) ectoderm; neural tube
C) endoderm; neural tube
D) ectoderm; chorion
Answer: B
Q3) Which statement about the embryonic disk is true?
A) It becomes the new organism.
B) It is the outer ring of cells on a blastocyst.
C) It has a good chance of survival outside the womb.
D) It is a protective membrane that surrounds the amnion.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Physical Development in Infancy and
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Q1) Yolanda, age 2, is being raised in a single-parent American household. Although her mother works, she does not always have sufficient funds to purchase enough food for a healthy, active life. Yolanda is skinny and withdrawn. Yolanda most likely suffers from
A) marasmus
B) anorexia
C) kwashiorkor
D) food insecurity
Q2) Following habituation, when a new stimulus causes responsiveness to return to a high level, the increase is called __________.
A) imitation
B) recovery
C) reinforcement
D) repetition
Q3) According to the cognitive perspective of perceptual development, babies
A) are blank slates
B) impose meaning on what they perceive
C) actively search for discontinuous stimuli
D) seek variant features in the environment
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Chapter 5: Cognitive Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) Herb and Nyla value make-believe as a developmentally beneficial activity. They would like to promote their 18-month-old daughter's play. You can tell them that toddlers' make-believe is more elaborate when __________.
A) they play alone
B) they do not use props
C) adults participate
D) other toddlers participate
Q2) One type of interactionist theory applies the __________ perspective to language development, and a second type emphasizes __________.
A) cognitive-developmental; emotional development
B) sociocultural; physical development
C) information-processing; social interaction
D) core knowledge; emotional development
Q3) Most infant tests predict __________.
A) school achievement well
B) later intelligence poorly
C) motor responses poorly
D) adult vocational success well
Q4) Describe the social-interactionist view of language development.
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Chapter 6: Emotional and Social Development in Infancy and
Toddlerhood
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Q1) Between 12 and 18 months, toddlers first become capable of __________.
A) intermodal perception
B) an internal working model
C) compliance
D) goodness of fit
Q2) The rise in fear after 6 months is adaptive because it __________.
A) keeps newly mobile babies' enthusiasm for exploration in check
B) enables the infant to overcome obstacles
C) prevents the child from displaying stranger anxiety
D) gives the infant a sense of shame and doubt
Q3) During Bowlby's __________ phase, children negotiate with the caregiver, using requests and persuasion to alter their goals.
A) formation of a reciprocal relationship
B) "attachment-in-the-making"
C) "clear-cut" attachment
D) preattachment
Q4) When anxious or unhappy, Baby Meredith prefers to be comforted by her mother. Tim, her father, is concerned that Meredith will not become attached to him. What information can you provide to reassure Tim?
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Chapter 7: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Four-year-old Brigid is likely to use more __________ when she is confused about how to proceed.
A) animistic thinking
B) hierarchical classification
C) private speech
D) magical thinking
Q2) According to sociocultural theory, __________ broadens preschoolers' participation in social dialogues with more knowledgeable individuals, who encourage them to master culturally important tasks.
A) individual sensorimotor exploration
B) the emergence of new epiphyses
C) development of reflexive schemes
D) rapid expansion of language
Q3) In child-centered kindergarten programs, __________.
A) teachers structure children's learning
B) teachers rely on repetition and drill
C) children learn through formal lessons
D) much learning takes place through play
Q4) Describe the benefits of watching educational television, such as Sesame Street.
Q5) Describe the benefits of make-believe play.
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Chapter 8: Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood
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Q1) Which statement about moral development is accurate?
A) Guilt is the only force that compels us to act morally.
B) Moral development is complete by the end of early childhood.
C) There is little evidence that guilt motivates moral action.
D) Moral development is a gradual process that extends into adulthood.
Q2) Girls exposed prenatally to high levels of androgens show a preference for
A) girls as playmates
B) quiet play over active play
C) creating art over rough-and-tumble play
D) trucks and blocks over dolls
Q3) Herma's parents are warm but overindulgent and inattentive. They make few demands for maturity. They permit Herma to make many decisions before she is ready. Herma's parents have a(n) __________ style of child rearing.
A) authoritative
B) authoritarian
C) permissive
D) uninvolved
Q4) Discuss some ways to reduce gender stereotyping in young children.
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Q5) Describe some of the undesirable consequences of frequent punishment.
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Chapter 9: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Compared with Piaget's theory, neo-Piagetian approaches better account for
A) the abrupt mastery of logical concepts in middle childhood
B) the similar timing of the mastery of abstract thinking across cultures
C) the discontinuous restructuring of children's thinking
D) unevenness in cognitive development
Q2) By far, the most common chronic disease or condition of children in the United States is __________.
A) sickle cell anemia
B) asthma
C) cystic fibrosis
D) diabetes
Q3) Nine-year-old Lela states, "Juana thinks that Barry thinks that his cell phone is under his pillow, but that's not really what Barry thinks; he knows his cell phone is in his dresser drawer." Lela is demonstrating __________.
A) elaboration
B) recursive thought
C) cognitive self-regulation
D) rehearsal
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Chapter 10: Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood
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Q1) Laquita performs well in school and communicates with her peers in friendly and cooperative ways. She is a __________ child.
A) popular-antisocial
B) controversial
C) rejected-aggressive
D) popular-prosocial
Q2) Eleven-year-old Darwin is more likely than 6-year-old Janeen to explain emotion by referring to __________.
A) personality traits
B) observable characteristics
C) external events
D) internal states
Q3) Research on peer victimization shows that __________.
A) most bullies who engage in face-to-face verbal attacks are girls
B) school codes against bullying are rarely effective at reducing peer victimization
C) interventions that change victimized children's negative opinions of themselves are helpful
D) chronic victims tend to be active when passive behavior is expected
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Chapter 11: Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence
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Q1) Kia, age 14, uses hypothetico-deductive reasoning. Therefore, when faced with a problem, Kia probably __________.
A) will fail to notice variables that are not obvious
B) starts with the most obvious predictions about a situation
C) cannot yet think of alternatives when her predictions about an outcome are not confirmed
D) starts with a hypothesis from which she deduces logical, testable inferences
Q2) More than two-thirds of U.S. high school dropouts __________.
A) obtain rewarding, high-paying jobs
B) never complete their secondary education
C) eventually obtain college degrees
D) finish their secondary education by their mid-twenties
Q3) The number of teenage births is considerably lower in the United States than it was 50 years ago because __________.
A) most schools provide abstinence-only sex education courses
B) about one-fourth of adolescent pregnancies end in abortion
C) fewer teenagers are having sexual intercourse
D) most U.S. adolescents use contraceptives
Q4) What is the role of heredity in sexual orientation?
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Chapter 12: Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence
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Q1) For most young people, identity development __________.
A) is traumatic and disturbing
B) is complete by the end of high school
C) is a process of exploration followed by commitment
D) leaves them unprepared for the challenges of adulthood
Q2) Discuss gender differences in friendship quality in adolescence.
Q3) On hypothetical dilemmas as well as everyday moral problems, adolescent and adult females __________.
A) are more likely than males to focus on themes of justice
B) display reasoning at a lower stage than their male agemates
C) display reasoning at the same stage as their male agemates, and often at a higher stage
D) focus on themes of both justice and caring, while males focus only on themes of caring
Q4) The longer antisocial young people spend in prison, the more likely they are to
A) sustain a life of crime
B) end criminal offending by age 20
C) be rehabilitated by age 25
D) counter habitual offending
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Chapter 13: Physical and Cognitive Development in Early
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Q1) __________ secrete antibodies into the bloodstream that multiply, capture foreign substances, and permit the blood system to destroy them.
A) T cells
B) B cells
C) Telomeres
D) Antigens
Q2) Which statement about rates of overweight and obesity in the United States is true?
A) Overweight children and adolescents typically lose weight between ages 25 and 50.
B) First-generation adults have lower odds of becoming obese than their foreign-born counterparts.
C) A substantial number of people show large weight gains between ages 25 and 50.
D) The overweight rate exceeds the obesity rate, which indicates that the trend is improving.
Q3) How does psychological stress affect health in early adulthood?
Q4) Describe the federal government's guidelines for dietary fat. How does the consumption of fat impact adult nutrition?
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Chapter 14: Emotional and Social Development in Early
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Q1) Which individual is the most likely to establish early residential independence?
A) Peyton, who attends a local community college
B) Zahara, who works part-time and does not go to college
C) Makayla, whose parents are divorced and combative
D) Garland, whose parents just celebrated their 25th anniversary
Q2) In families with five to ten siblings, __________.
A) intimacy is more important than commitment
B) sibling bonds are weaker than in small families
C) close sibling bonds may replace friendships
D) friends are preferred confidants over siblings
Q3) Discuss Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love. Define its components, and discuss how each changes over the course of a relationship.
Q4) According to Levinson, of the many components of the __________, usually only a few, relating to family, close friendships, and occupation, are central.
A) ego
B) internal working model
C) social clock
D) life structure
Q5) Describe the gender differences in same-sex adult friendships.
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Chapter 15: Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle
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Q1) Saul, age 62, has an eye condition. Its name literally means "old eyes." Saul has
A) glaucoma
B) presbycusis
C) macular degeneration
D) presbyopia
Q2) Which statement is true about age-related slowing of cognitive processing?
A) According to one approach, aging is accompanied by the hardening of the myelin coating on neural fibers in the cerebral cortex.
B) One approach suggests that older adults experience greater loss of information as it moves through the cognitive system.
C) According to one approach, complex tasks, which have more processing steps, are less affected by information loss.
D) The age-related decline in processing speed is the only major predictor of age-related cognitive changes.
Q3) Discuss hormone therapy, which is used to reduce the physical symptoms of menopause. What are the risks and benefits?
Q4) Describe the Type A behavior pattern. How does it affect health?
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Chapter 16: Emotional and Social Development in Middle
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Q1) Women who demonstrate __________ in the workplace often encounter prejudice.
A) cooperativeness
B) assertiveness
C) a collaborative style
D) a democratic style
Q2) Which statement is true about grandparents?
A) Grandparents who take full responsibility for young children rarely experience emotional strain.
B) Relationships with daughter-in-law or son-in-law strongly affect the closeness of grandchild ties.
C) In higher-income families, grandparents are more likely to perform essential activities.
D) Grandfathers report higher satisfaction with the grandparent role than grandmothers.
Q3) Compared with younger people, middle-aged adults see themselves as
A) more concerned about others' expectations and evaluations
B) capable of effectively managing a complex array of tasks
C) less concerned with following self-chosen standards
D) less content with themselves and life
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Q4) Describe the sandwich generation.
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Chapter 17: Physical and Cognitive Development in Late
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Q1) Which statement is true about cognitive intervention in late adulthood?
A) Interventions that train older people in cognitive strategies cannot reverse age-related declines.
B) Older adults' relatively well-preserved metacognition is a powerful asset in cognitive training efforts.
C) Researchers have concluded that cognitive training enhances emotional well-being but not cognitive skills.
D) Cognitive intervention rarely results in improved day-to-day problem solving or working memory tasks.
Q2) After cardiovascular disease and cancer, the most common cause of death among the aged is __________.
A) strokes
B) respiratory diseases
C) Alzheimer's disease
D) osteoporosis
Q3) What is the reminiscence bump? Why are adolescent and early adulthood experiences retrieved more readily than those of middle adulthood?
Q4) Define and describe terminal decline.
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Chapter 18: Emotional and Social Development in Late
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Q1) The late-life increase in religiosity is __________.
A) universal
B) usually modest
C) a Western phenomenon
D) inevitable
Q2) Carmen, age 82, lives with her son Lance, who regularly fails to fulfill needed caregiving obligations. As a result, Carmen often lacks medication, fails to eat meals, and feels isolated. Carmen is a victim of __________.
A) physical neglect
B) physical abuse
C) emotional abuse
D) financial abuse
Q3) According to Erikson, the final psychological conflict, __________, involves coming to terms with one's life.
A) intimacy versus isolation
B) generativity versus stagnation
C) ego integrity versus despair
D) ego identity versus role confusion
Q4) Discuss the concept of gerotranscendence.
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Chapter 19: Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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Q1) Most terminally ill people who reach Kübler-Ross's acceptance stage __________.
A) use emotion-centered coping strategies
B) have a deep religious faith
C) do so soon after learning of their condition
D) disengage from all but a few family members
Q2) Which of the following is true about how we die?
A) The greatest dignity in death is in the integrity of the life that precedes it.
B) Societies do not need a definition of death because it happens at a single point in time.
C) The brain death standard always solves the problem of when to halt treatment.
D) Today, medical science can guarantee the idealized, easy end most people want.
Q3) In a study of death anxiety among devout Islamic Saudi Arabians, fear of __________ was entirely absent.
A) a painful death
B) the body decaying
C) separation of loved ones
D) no longer existing
Q4) What is bereavement overload? Who is at risk for it?
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