Educational Psychology Review Questions
Course Introduction
Educational Psychology explores the scientific study of how people learn within educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. The course examines key theories of learning and motivation, cognitive development, classroom management, assessment methods, and the impact of individual differences such as culture, abilities, and disabilities on learning. Through a combination of theory, research, and practical applications, students gain insight into how psychological principles can be applied to foster effective teaching and support student success in diverse classroom environments.
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The World of Psychology 7th Canadian Edition by by
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Samuel E. Wood
Chapter 1: Introduction to Psychology
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Q1) The major figures associated with humanistic psychology are
A) Wundt and Titchener.
B) Watson and Skinner.
C) Wertheimer and Koffka.
D) Maslow and Rogers
Answer: D
Q2) Of the following, which statement would most likely be endorsed by John Watson?
A) The best way to study conscious experience is to analyze its component parts.
B) We should examine how the mind helps us adapt to a complex and changing world.
C) People are capable of making conscious, rational choices, which can lead to growth and psychological health.
D) Because mental events cannot be observed, psychology should restrict its focus to observable, measurable behaviour
Answer: D
Q3) Psychological tests are sometimes used in experiments or correlation studies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Biology and Behaviour
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Q1) Which lobes of the cortex are activated first as you read this question?
A) Temporal
B) Parietal
C) Occipital
D) Frontal
Answer: C
Q2) The structure which controls arousal and attention and screens sensory messages entering the brain is the
A) reticular formation
B) pons.
C) amygdala.
D) hippocampus.
Answer: A
Q3) Why have some individuals had their corpus callosum surgically severed?
A) To treat severe depression and other mental illness
B) To control outbursts of rage and anger
C) To limit the severity of epileptic seizures
D) To provide subjects for split-brain research
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception
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Q1) Where in the nasal cavity is the olfactory epithelium located?
A) in the middle
B) Throughout
C) On the outer edge
D) At the top
Answer: D
Q2) What beneficial purpose does pain serve?
Answer: Pain motivates us to tend to injuries, to restrict activity and to seek medical help. Pain also teaches us to avoid pain-producing circumstances in the future.
Q3) You see two of the same type of bus down the street. Even though one bus looks larger than the other, you assume that they are the same size and that the larger appearing bus is closer to you. This assumption is based on your knowledge of A) relative size
B) interposition.
C) convergence.
D) binocular disparity.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: States of Conciousness
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Q1) Valium, Librium and Xanax are
A) narcotics.
B) designer drugs.
C) barbiturates.
D) minor tranquilizers
Q2) All of the following are believed to decrease problems associated with working night shifts, except
A) staying awake for 24 hours after a night shift bycreasing caffeinetake
B) exposure to bright light during the last four hours of sleep.
C) use of a wakefulness drug called Modafinil.
D) brief nap periods during a shift, where possible.
Q3) Recent research has suggested that meditation may be effective in reducing blood pressure.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Somnambulism typically occurs during
A) Stage 4 sleep
B) REM sleep.
C) Stage 1 sleep.
D) paradoxical sleep.
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Chapter 5: Learning
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Q1) One problem with token economies is that
A) subjects tend to demand escalating rewards.
B) behaviours tend to be permanently altered, and sometimes this is not desirable if they are specific to the situation.
C) learned behaviour generally stops once the tokens are discontinued
D) they tend to work mild situations, but rarely are effective difficult situations like prisons or special needs classrooms.
Q2) The removal of an unpleasant stimulus after a desired behaviour has occurred
A) is the reverse of positive reinforcement.
B) is called awful reinforcement.
C) is known as prototypical reinforcement.
D) is called negative reinforcement
Q3) Receiving a paycheque and being praised are examples of A) primary reinforcers.
B) negative reinforcers.
C) discriminative stimuli.
D) secondary reinforcers
Q4) What is behaviour modification?
Q5) What is discrimination in classical conditioning?
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Chapter 6: Memory
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Q1) Relate the case of H.M.-the cause of his memory loss, what kinds of memory losses he exhibits, and what abilities he does have. Explain what researchers learned about memory from studying H.M.
Q2) A component of working memory is
A) elaborative rehearsal.
B) short-term memory
C) semantic memory.
D) iconic memory.
Q3) Who among the following said, "The past is being continually remade, reconstructed in the interest of the present"?
A) Hermann Ebbinghaus
B) Sir Frederick Bartlett
C) Charles Sperling
D) Wilder Penfield
Q4) Which of the following would be stored in nondeclarative memory?
A) Mathematical formulas
B) Knowing how to knit
C) The meaning of "hypothalamus"
D) The date of your mother's birthday
Q5) Describe the levels-of-processing model of memory.
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Chapter 7: Cognition, Language, and Intelligence
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Q1) All of the following are true of the mildly mentally retarded except that they A) are able to read and write. B) are rarely employable C) are able to write. D) do not need constant supervision.
Q2) After administering a test to a job applicant, Dr. Snyder concludes that only 25 percent of the persons taking the test obtain a score as low as Gene's score. Dr. Snyder can reach such a conclusion only if the test has been A) valid.
B) standardized C) reliable. D) accurate.
Q3) Three-year-old Carrie, points to a truck and proudly announces that it is a car. Her mother corrects her by saying, "No Carrie, that is a truck." This is an example of A) reinforcement learning action.
B) a simple mistake by a child, with little connection to language development. C) negativestances of the concept car D) anappropriate correction of language.
Q4) What is creativity, and what tests have been designed to measure it?
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Chapter 8: Development
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Q1) The term bonding has been used to describe mutual A) learning.
B) maturation.
C) habituation.
D) attachment
Q2) Describe the research on attachment conducted by Mary Ainsworth and by Harry Harlow, including the design of the studies and the research findings.
Q3) The process of generalization that occurs in classical and operant conditioning is most similar to what Piaget called
A) accommodation.
B) concrete operations.
C) assimilation
D) decentration.
Q4) Which of the following would be least likely to increase the chance of having a low birth weight baby?
A) Maternal stress
B) Poor maternal nutrition
C) Smoking
D) Poor prenatal care
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Chapter 9: Motivation and Emotion
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Q1) What is the drive-reduction theory of motivation?
Q2) The fact that children blind and deaf from birth have facial expressions similar to sighted people is evidence for the universality of emotional expression.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which theory has the greatest emphasis on the cognitive component of emotion?
A) Schachter-Singer theory
B) James-Lange theory
C) Lazarus theory
D) Cannon-Bard theory
Q4) The motive to explore and the motive of curiosity are called
A) extrinsic motives.
B) stimulus motives
C) instincts.
D) social motives.
Q5) Incentive is to motive as ________ is to ________.
A) internal; external
B) need; satisfaction
C) physical; desire
D) one aspect; the larger theory
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Chapter 10: Social Psychology
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Q1) What biological factors influence aggression?
Q2) If members of a group are disposed to make the group be more cohesive, then they are more likely to make decisions based on solidarity or uniformity rather than objectively evaluating solutions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Evidence suggests that good looks are important for an initial attraction.
A)True
B)False
Q4) About what percentage of abused children become abusive parents?
A) 90 percent
B) 75 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 10 percent
Q5) Aggression in response to frustration is almost always aimed at the cause of the frustration.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What kinds of aversive events and unpleasant emotions have been related to aggression?
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Chapter 11: Personality Theory and Assessment
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Q1) An important theme in Horney's work is
A) theferiority complex.
B) the biological basis of personality.
C) extroversion andtroversion.
D) feminine psychology
Q2) The moral system of personality, which consists of conscience and ego ideal, is the A) superego
B) ego.
C) preconscious.
D) id.
Q3) The term psychoanalysis applies only to the method of therapy developed by Freud.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Describe an inferiority complex according to Adler.
Q5) The goal of the id is to satisfy every wish while avoiding pain and seeking pleasure. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Health and Stress
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Q1) What is the field of psychology that is devoted to understanding psychological influences on how people stay healthy, why they become ill, and how they respond when they do get ill?
A) General psychology
B) Forensic psychology
C) Health psychology
D) Human factors psychology
Q2) The biomedical model approaches health and illness by focusing upon the biological factors that contribute to a disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Teaching a person how to tense and relax the major muscle groups is the procedure known as
A) progressive relaxation
B) stress-inoculation training.
C) sublimation.
D) transcendental meditation.
Q4) Describe the role of social support to improved health.
Q5) What is Selye's theory of stress?
Q6) What did Lazarus mean when he wrote of the daily hassles and uplifts of life?
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Chapter 13: Psychology Disorders
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Q1) Joseph is a person who fears being less than perfect. She tries to hold her friends and lovers to the same standards and as a result has shallow emotional ties. She is likely suffering from
A) avoidant personality disorder.
B) compulsive personality disorder
C) histrionic personality disorder.
D) borderline personality disorder.
Q2) According to the textbook, in most cases phobias are acquired through a combination of
A) social pressure and experience.
B) conditioning and observational learning
C) psychosis and anxiety.
D) genetics and environment.
Q3) Maurice is convinced that he is Jesus Christ. Such a belief would best fit which type of schizophrenia?
A) Disorganized schizophrenia
B) Paranoid schizophrenia
C) Residual schizophrenia
D) Catatonic schizophrenia
Q4) Discuss cognitive model of the cause of depression.
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Chapter 14: Therapies
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Q1) According to Kleinman and Cohen, people experience and suffer from biological and psychological disorders within
A) a family setting.
B) a uniform environment.
C) a cultural context
D) their own mind.
Q2) cognitive therapies assume that maladaptive behaviour can result from irratio-nal thoughts, beliefs, and ideas, which the therapist tries to change.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Because psychoanalysis focuses on helping patients become aware of their unconscious motives and conflicts, it is considered
A) antuitive therapy.
B) a patient-centred therapy.
C) antrospective therapy.
D) ansight therapy
Q4) How does rational-emotive therapy explain psychological disorders?
Q5) What techniques do psychoanalysts use to help people with psychological disorders?
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