Human Growth and Development Test Bank
Course Introduction
Human Growth and Development is an interdisciplinary course that explores the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that occur throughout the human lifespan, from conception to late adulthood. The course examines foundational theories and research in developmental psychology, while also considering the impact of culture, environment, genetics, and individual differences. Students will analyze developmental milestones, understand age-related challenges, and gain insights into how various factors influence growth and learning at different life stages. This course prepares students to apply knowledge of human development in diverse professional and real-world contexts.
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Educational Psychology Active Learning Edition 12th Edition by Anita Woolfolk
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Chapter 1: Learning, Teaching, and Educational Psychology
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Q1) A researcher reports that students who have the highest test scores in school tend to be more involved in extracurricular activities than are other students.What specific type of research study must have been conducted?
A)Correlational
B)Descriptive
C)Ethnographic
D)Experimental
Answer: A
Q2) When beginning teachers confront everyday classroom life,they often experience
Answer: reality shock
Q3) A case study is an investigation of
A)a small group of people with similar backgrounds.
B)different groups of people over a period of time.
C)one person or group over a specific period of time.
D)people from one geographic area.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Development
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Q1) Define Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and explain how it relates to the problem of matching cognitive stages with instructional strategies.
Answer: The zone of proximal development is the point when a child can master a task if given appropriate help and support.It suggests that students should have to reach a bit to understand,with the necessary support of parents,teachers,and peers.Such support is called scaffolding.Vygotsky's ideas suggest that students should be guided by explanations,demonstrations,and cooperative learning within their zone of proximal development.Use of private speech should also be encouraged in order to help organize thinking.
Q2) According to Piaget,the process of searching for a balance between cognitive schemas and environmental information is called A)accommodation.
B)adaptation.
C)assimilation.
D)equilibration.
Answer: D
Q3) When a schema produces an unsatisfactory result,a student experiences
Answer: disequilibrium
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Chapter 3: The Self, Social, and Moral Development
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Q1) Dependence on peers,parents,and others begins to change to independence during what identity status?
A)Diffusion
B)Conventional
C)Foreclosure
D)Moratorium
Answer: D
Q2) Research has shown that students who watch others behaving aggressively
A)become more aggressive.
B)become more passive.
C)do not change their behavior.
D)tolerate less aggression among peers.
Answer: A
Q3) A child who engages in behaviors intended to hurt another child is engaging in ___________aggression.
Answer: hostile
Q4) Teachers should pay attention to which children are rejected and play alone.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Learner Differences and Learning Needs
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Q1) All children in Ms.Gray's math class can now solve subtraction problems,but Larry does them much more quickly and efficiently than most of his classmates.Sternberg would call this
A)automaticity.
B)flexibility.
C)insight.
D)meta-components.
Q2) Recent research has indicated that acceleration of students who are gifted A)has been unnecessarily discouraged in the past.
B)is related to lower achievement.
C)results in poor social and emotional adjustment.
D)robs students of the companionship of their age group.
Q3) Students with learning disabilities also face another challenge in that they often have ________.
Q4) At the top of Carroll's three-tiered intelligence model is ________.
Q5) In treating hyperactivity,the medication that seems to work best is
A)common aspirin.
B)depressants.
C)placebo prescriptions.
D)stimulants.
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Chapter 5: Language Development, Language Diversity, and Immigrant Education
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Q1) Individuals who speak two languages are said to be ________.
Q2) Susana says "my backpack was forgotted," which is example of what problem of learning grammar?
A)She overregularized the word "forget" by applying a rule to every language situation.
B)She has a disability related to pragmatics.
C)She misuses monolingual educational strategies.
D)She shows evidence of being semi-lingual in her second language.
Q3) Individuals who speak two languages are said to be ________.
Q4) By what age do most children master the sounds of their native language?
A)5
B)9 months
C)7
D)2
Q5) A person who is capable of communicating both in a spoken language and a signed language are considered to be _____________.
Q6) Many researchers believe in the notion of ________ or the idea that if children do not learn certain language or literacy skills by specific ages,they never will.
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Q7) The area of language that deals specifically with word order is called ________.
Chapter 6: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) Organized bodies of knowledge about groups of people that affect how we react to them are called ________.
Q2) Both traditional and ethnocentric approaches should be emphasized in multicultural education.
A)True B)False
Q3) Resilient children not only survive in difficult times,they also
A)are less likely to need social or emotional support.
B)lack strong family support systems.
C)maintain a positive outlook even though they lack confidence in their own abilities. D)thrive in spite of the difficult circumstances.
Q4) Define gender bias and describe how it has been expressed in school.
Q5) Identify some of the factors that may lead low-income students to perform less well in school than middle-income students with the same abilities.
Q6) The majority of poor children in the schools of the United States are African-American.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 7: Behavioral Views of Learning
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Q1) In Pavlov's experiment,the conditioned stimulus was the tuning fork tone.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to Woolfolk,the best way to determine potential reinforcers is to A)ask the experienced teachers for their suggestions.
B)establish a student committee and have them vote.
C)observe what students choose to do in their free time.
D)set up activities to see if students enjoy them.
Q3) The act of providing an antecedent stimulus just before a particular behavior is to take place is ________.
Q4) Explain why (or why not)such strategies as token reinforcement and contingency contracting might help Kelly's situation.
Q5) The influences of external events or behavior are the focus of ________ learning theories.
Q6) Compare and contrast the strategies of cueing and shaping as methods for developing desirable behaviors.
Q7) Interventions designed to replace problem behaviors with new behaviors that serve the same purpose for the students are called ________.
Q8) Token reinforcement
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Views of Learning
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Q1) Knowing about the characteristics and images of a concept is ________ knowledge.
Q2) Bottom-up processing refers to the way people examine a new stimulus for A)contextual cues.
B)contrasting details.
C)perceptual closure.
D)recognizable features.
Q3) While taking his final exam,Jerry recalled one item of information that caused him to remember another piece of information related to the question.What phenomenon has he just experienced?
A)Distributed recall
B)Massed practice
C)Serial-position effect
D)Spread of activation
Q4) Propositional networks are defined most accurately as
A)a process by which verbal information reaches short-term memory.
B)a technique used to increase the capacity of short-term memory.
C)the organization of information according to its meaning.
D)the process by means of which information reaches the sensory register.
Q5) Discuss how the following memory systems would be involved in perceiving and remembering the accident: sensory,working,long-term.
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Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes
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Q1) Roberto,an eleventh grade student,rereads his poem for the third time and asks himself again "Is this poem finished?" Roberto is engaging in ________ thinking.
Q2) Overlearning:
Q3) Dividing a problem into a number of intermediate goals and then identifying a means of solving each subgoal is called ________.
Q4) Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
A)Analogical thinking and metacognition are the same process.
B)Children in second grade are too young to engage in self-reflection.
C)Very young children are better metacognitve thinkers than adolescents.
D)Students' metacognitive skills are fixed because they are aligned to their learning style.
E)Metacognitive knowledge and skills can be learned and improved.
Q5) An important part of becoming an expert in a field is ________ knowledge.
Q6) In addition to having originality,creativity involves ________ motivation.
Q7) Learning strategies are a special kind of ________ knowledge.
Q8) ________ is a general plan for approaching a learning task.
Q9) The tendency to respond in the most familiar or rigid way is a response set.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism
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Q1) Cooperative learning involves the following:
A)Elaboration,interpretation,and argumentation
B)Shared values,lack of conflict,and creativity
C)Cognitive flexibility,competition,and self-respect
D)Extrinsic rewards,elaboration,and autonomy
Q2) Two major characteristics of constructivist teaching are complex learning environments and ________.
Q3) Service learning refers to problem-based learning projects which are outside of the student's curriculum.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The ________ format requires each member of a cooperative learning group to teach their other members one section of the material.
Q5) In the Jigsaw method,one student leader is responsible for teaching the material to the group.
A)True
B)False
Q6) One of the goals of service learning is to encourage students to reflect upon their own role in ________.
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Chapter 11: Social Cognitive Views of Learning and Motivation
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Q1) Which one of the following statements is TRUE about the role of expectations in social cognitive theory?
A)Expectations played a large role in Bandura's social learning theory,but do not play a key role in his social cognitive theory.
B)In addition to beliefs and self-perceptions,expectations play a key role in Bandura's social cognitive theory.
C)According to Bandura's theory,values are more important than expectations for understanding students' motivation.
D)Although expectations are important,they are too difficult to measure to be concerned about in everyday classroom activities.
Q2) When you think about the mutual effects of a student's behavior,his or her personal characteristics,and the environment,you are relying on Bandura's concept of
Q3) Beliefs about our ability to accomplish tasks in a given situation is ________.
Q4) In an effort to encourage students to become self-regulated learners,teachers will want to be very careful about the types of behaviors they ________.
Q5) Self-regulated learners are ________ to learn.
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Chapter 12: Motivation in Learning and Teaching
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Q1) In Maslow's hierarchy,self-esteem is considered to be what type of need?
A)Being
B)Deficiency
C)Proficiency
D)Self-actualization
Q2) Teachers are encouraged to recognize students for their accomplishments,especially improving their own personal best.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Theories that take into account both the behaviorist's concern with the effects of behavior and the cognitivist's interest in the impact of thinking are characterized as ________ theories.
Q4) The concept of self-determination is an important influence in what view of motivation?
A)Behavioral
B)Cognitive
C)Humanistic
D)Social learning
Q5) The interest state that arouses,directs,and maintains behavior is ________.
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Chapter 13: Creating Learning Environments
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Q1) According to David Johnson and his colleagues' five-step negotiating strategy,the first step is to
A)have the students jointly define the problem or conflict.
B)separate the students in order to define the conflict.
C)require the students to take the reverse perspective so they can consider the other person's point of view.
D)ask the students to invent at least two arguments that allow mutual gain.
Q2) Movement management means propelling the class lesson at an appropriate and flexible pace and avoiding abrupt transitions and slowdowns.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Based on Doyle's analysis of classroom characteristics and management needs,the main task for teachers is viewed as
A)dealing effectively with misbehavior when it occurs.
B)gaining students' cooperation for learning tasks.
C)trying to ensure that students will be obedient.
D)working actively with administrators and teachers.
Q4) According to Woolfolk,the best answer to school violence is ________.
Q5) What step would you take next in dealing with Ellen,if you were Mr.Fournier?
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Chapter 14: Teaching Every Student
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Q1) Indicate the HIGHEST level of Bloom's taxonomy in which the following question can be classified: "How should government classes judge the feasibility of a court decision?"
A)Analysis
B)Application
C)Evaluation
D)Synthesis
Q2) Questions dealing with concrete facts are divergent questions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which one of the following strategies is appropriate regarding the use of seatwork?
A)Seatwork should be counted as part of the course grade.
B)Seatwork should involve only minimal monitoring by the teacher.
C)Students should not be permitted to help each other with their seatwork.
D)Teachers in the United States use seatwork relatively infrequently when compared to those in other countries.
Q4) Write three possible cognitive objectives for your teaching specialty,using Mager's and Gronlund's approaches.Each objective should address a different level in Bloom's taxonomy.
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Chapter 15: Classroom Assessment, Grading, and Standardized Testing
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Q1) The evidence for validity that concerns whether the test measures the trait in question rather than some other trait is what type of evidence?
A)Construct-related
B)Content-related
C)Criterion-related
D)Test-retest
Q2) Approximately what percentage of the scores in a normal distribution is higher than one standard deviation above the mean?
A)2)5 percent
B)16 percent
C)34 percent
D)68 percent
Q3) Because authentic assessments require students to perform,it is perfectly logical to __________,because the whole point of instruction is for students to do well on these tasks.
Q4) The grading system that does not permit the mathematical averaging and/or combining of test scores,homework assignments,and other measures of student performances is __________.
Q5) Would her grading system be considered norm-referenced? Why or why not?
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