Educational Psychology Test Preparation
Course Introduction
Educational Psychology explores the scientific study of how people learn and the factors that influence learning in educational settings. This course examines key theories of cognitive, emotional, and social development as they relate to educational environments, emphasizing topics such as motivation, classroom management, assessment, and individual differences among learners. Through analysis of empirical research and application to real-world scenarios, students will gain insights into effective teaching strategies and develop a deeper understanding of how to create supportive and inclusive learning atmospheres that foster student success.
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A Guidance Approach for the Encouraging Classroom 6th Edition by Dan Gartrell
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Chapter 1: The Guidance Tradition
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Q1) Assertive discipline and obedience-based systems
A)Support developmentally appropriate practice
B)Use a system of rewards and punishments
C)Holds that the adult should guide the child,rather than discipline the child
D)Stems from the belief that human nature has the potential for good
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following practices is NOT used in the guidance tradition?
A)punishment
B)encouragement
C)the empowering of productive human activity
D)the teaching of democratic life skills
Answer: A
Q3) Seven key practices about the way in which children should be treated in schools were identified by
A)Maria Montessori
B)John Dewey
C)Friedrich Froebel
D)Robert Owen
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Child Development and Guidance
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Q1) According to Brazelton and Greenspan,the important factor in the child's development is
A)the difference in the quality of nonparental caregiving
B)the limitations of nonparental caregiving in early childhood settings
C)the importance of the role of the child's caregiver in early childhood settings
D)the minimal effects of the family-educator partnership
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following has supported the use of standardized assessments as a means of enforcing educational accountability?
A)modern developmental psychology
B)the "No Child Left Behind" law
C)child welfare agencies
D)local school districts
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Mistaken Behaviorchallenging Behavior
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Q1) Teachers in the guidance classroom may avoid the use of which of the following approaches?
A)use punishment to shame only children who manifest severe and negative behaviors
B)consider of the reasons for the student's behavior
C)avoid value judgments about the child
D)understand that only with the assistance of caring adults can children learn and grow in healthy ways
Answer: A
Q2) When a child reacts to another child by biting or having a tantrum to get what the child wants,it is an example of which of the following types of aggression?
A)genetically determined aggression
B)reactive aggression
C)interactive aggression
D)instrumental agression
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Guidance: The Bottom Line
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Q1) According to Greenberg,the partnership that exists between family members and teachers is
A)insignificant to the teacher's use in the guidance classroom.
B)integral to a teacher's use of guidance
C)the responsibility of the family to develop and maintain
D)particularly true of middle income families.
Q2) Which of the following does NOT describe the actions of the professional teacher?
A)The professional teacher does not impose upon family members for their input regarding their children or involve family members in learning about the guidance tradition.
B)The professional teacher balances outside academic pressures with accepted early childhood guidelines for appropriate and responsive practices.
C)The professional teacher monitors and occasionally formally assesses the match between the needs of the children and the educational program.When needed,the professional teacher revises the program to improve the match between the program and the children.
Q3) How does guidance reduce the need for mistaken behavior?
Q4) How can poverty influence the child in the classroom?
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Chapter 5: Organizing the Encouraging Classroom
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Q1) Who argued that Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)meant the shifting away from the study of isolated academic subjects toward the study of integrated curriculum?
A)Piaget and Maslow
B)Myers and Maurer
C)Bredekamp,Copple,and Brewer
D)Montessori and Vygotsky
Q2) Health studies confirm that vigorous activity
A)that is competitive in nature consistently shows benefits for stress reduction
B)that is competitive shows strong positive impact on healthy development
C)that is noncompetitive increases student anxiety in a competitive world
D)that is noncompetitive assists in stress reduction,hormone balance,and enhancement of the body's major systems
Q3) Which of the following terms applies to the inappropriate pressures "officials" place on schools?
A)performance-based instruction
B)political accountability
C)educational accountability
D)ethical conduct
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Chapter 6: Managing the Encouraging Classroom
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Q1) Which of the following parents might the teacher want to encourage to volunteer in the classroom?
A)the parent who has contributed to the funding programs within the school
B)the parent who has a child with many mistaken behaviors and who needs to witness the classroom activity.
C)the parent who has volunteered before on a regular basis
D)the parent who complains most to the school about concerns and issues
Q2) Which of the following best engages young children to learn?
A)frequent small group activities
B)many independent activities
C)limited large-group activities
D)all of these answers
Q3) How can the teacher make use of family members and other classroom volunteers?
Q4) .In the day-to-day program,children need
A)both a sense of reliability and promise of novelty
B)corrective punishment for infringement of classroom rules
C)highly structured large group and small group routines
D)quiet,orderly classrooms
Q5) In the guidance approach,how does the teacher work with emergent bilingual learners?
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Chapter 7: Leadership Communication With the Group
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Q1) The teacher does not have to make any other points of recognition to encourage students once a public encouragement has been made.
A)The group receives clear feedback and knows that its efforts are appreciated.
B)The teacher has indirectly made known the cooperative students and the noncooperative ones.
C)The strength of public encouragement includes which of the following?
D)Parents of those students who have received a public encouragement from the teacher can be proud of their children.
Q2) How do class meetings build the encouraging classroom?
Q3) Which of the following is a strategy to use when a entteacher wishes to use encouragement with all of the children in a class?
A)logical consequences of good behavior
B)encouraging guidelines
C)public encouragement
D)private encouragement
Q4) Why are guidelines,not rules,important in the encouraging classroom?
Q5) Why is encouragement more appropriate than praise?
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Chapter 8: Leadership Communication With the Individual
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Q1) Conferences with parents can take place
A)always within the classroom setting
B)in various places such as the home or a community center
C)never in a school
D)all of the above
Q2) A teacher can help a child discharge pent up emotions and feelings.
A)by having the child's classmates discuss problems or concerns the child may have
B)by listening to life experiences of the child
C)by providing contact talks,i.e.personal "quality time" to children
D)both b and c
Q3) How do teachers use effective communication in the guardian-teacher conference?
Q4) How do teachers' listening skills encourage young learners?
Q5) Which of the following is NOT a possible ingredient in the compliment sandwich?
A)a warning
B)two statements of encouragement
C)a recommendation
D)a request
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Chapter 9: Using Conflict Management
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the recommended guidelines for using conflict management?
A)The teacher intervenes firmly as a moral authority.
B)The teacher calms down all parties before starting.
C)The teacher need not mediate perfectly for children to learn social problem-solving skills.
D)The teacher supports the right of personal expression and the skill of effective communication.
Q2) When using the five-finger formula for conflict management,start with the thumb,which stands for
A)discuss and agree what the problem is
B)agree on a solution and how it will work
C)cool down
D)brainstorm solutions all can live with.
Q3) Young children do NOT tend to see problems
A)in the immediate moment
B)from their own point of view
C)in abstract terms
D)in physical terms
Q4) What do teachers need to know about two trends in family diversity?
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Chapter 10: Problem-Solving Mistaken Behavior
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a type of nonverbal technique for intervention?
A)negotiation reminders
B)facial expressions
C)physical proximity
D)gestures
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a reason that a teacher would want a child-report?
A)a child has wandered from the playground
B)a child has been hurt
C)a child is having a seizure
D)a child did not wash his/her hands before snack time
Q3) The first degree in putting choices to children is
A)inviting choices
B)requesting choices
C)commanding choices
D)demanding an action
Q4) Which is not a situation that requires thought about whether to intervene?
A)bossiness
B)marginal mistaken behaviors
C)serious mistaken behaviors
D)arguments
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Chapter 11: Guidance Through Intervention
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Q1) Why is it important for the teacher to manage anger?
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a form of separation?
A)redirection
B)passive bear hug
C)time-out
D)cooling-down time
Q3) Which is not a step of improving one's management of anger?
A)using safeguards when expressing anger
B)practicing reconciliation
C)commanding cooperation
D)monitoring feelings and making adjustments
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a step of the Individual Guidance Plan (IGP)process?
A)implementing a guidance plan
B)generalizing the guidance plan
C)holding an IGP meeting
D)monitoring the guidance plan
Q5) How does commanding cooperation differ from issuing an ultimatum?
Q6) Why is physical restraint the method of last resort when dealing with mistaken behavior?
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Chapter 12: Liberation Teaching: A Guidance Response
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Q1) How are children in the classroom affected by violence in society?
Q2) In multicultural education,what is meant by the term "tourist curriculum"?
Q3) What is the connection of liberation teaching to other education practices?
Q4) Which of the following is NOT a way children come into a classroom vulnerable to stigma?
A)culture
B)personality factors
C)physical vulnerabilities
D)labels
Q5) How does liberation teaching apply to relations with family members?
Q6) Why is liberation teaching important to the encouraging classroom?
Q7) Children who show chronic mistaken behavior are
A)vulnerable for bullying
B)at-risk of stigma.
C)more difficult for teachers to accept
D)all of the above
Q8) What does Levin's continuum of violence in children's lives tell us?
Q9) What is the liberation teaching response to bullying?
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