Instructional Psychology Exam Practice Tests
Course Introduction
Instructional Psychology explores the psychological principles and theories that underpin effective teaching and learning processes. This course examines how learners acquire, retain, and apply knowledge, focusing on motivation, cognitive development, individual differences, and classroom dynamics. Students will analyze evidence-based instructional strategies and assessment methods, develop skills to design supportive learning environments, and consider the impact of culture and context on educational outcomes. By applying insights from psychological research, participants will be equipped to enhance both teaching practice and student learning in diverse educational settings.
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Educational Psychology 6th Canadian Edition by Anita Woolfolk
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Chapter 1: Learning, teaching, and Educational Psychology
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Q1) Dr.Patterson concludes from her research that using a systematic study strategy \(\bold{CAUSED}\) good grades for students assigned to a particular group.For this conclusion to be valid,the type of research that was performed must have been what type of study?
A)Correlational
B)Descriptive
C)Experimental
D)Observational Answer: C
Q2) A researcher participates in a class over a two-month period and analyzes the strategies the teacher employs to maintain discipline.This research is an example of what specific type of research study?
A)Cross-sectional
B)Ethnography
C)Experimental
D)Longitudinal Answer: B
Q3) Weight of clothing and outside temperature are ____________ correlated. Answer: negatively
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Development and Language
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Q1) According to Piaget,the foundation for development in all humans is supplied by A)activity.
B)exploration.
C)maturation.
D)social transmission.
Answer: C
Q2) Assimilation takes place when a person uses existing schemes to make sense of events in their world.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The cognitive stage associated with ability to understand hypothetical situations is formal operations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) Both Piaget and Vygotsky would most likely agree students need to be taught in the "magic ________" or the place where they are neither bored nor frustrated. Answer: middle
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Chapter 3: Self and Social and Moral Development
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Q1) Psychologists disagree about the commonly held belief that parents are the major influence on their children.What is the basis of this disagreement?
A)Behavioural genetics
B)Child rearing practices
C)Peer influences
D)Social environment
Answer: C
Q2) Three important influences on the development of moral behaviour are internalization,self-concept,and ________.
Answer: modelling
Q3) According to Erikson,children's first development crisis is resolving initiative vs.guilt.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) ________ marks the beginning of sexual maturity.
Answer: Puberty
Q5) Situations in which people must make difficult decisions are called ________. Answer: moral dilemmas
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Chapter 4: Learner Differences and Learning Needs
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Q1) According to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR,2006),suicide among youth is higher for girls than boys.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A five-year-old is found to have a mental age of seven on Binet's original IQ test.What is the estimate of the child's intelligence quotient?
A)115
B)130
C)140
D)170
Q3) Based on the underlying idea of Gardner's theory,one might expect minor brain damage to
A)affect all types of functioning with about the same degree of impact.
B)cause more severe physical problems than mental problems.
C)interfere with one type of functioning but not affect other areas.
D)lower general intelligence but have less impact on specific types of intelligence.
Q4) The average deviation IQ score for the general population is ________.
Q5) Cerebral palsy is commonly characterized by overly tense muscles or ________.
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Chapter 5: Language, language Diversity, and Immigrant Education
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Q1) Monika has a dialect that differs in pronunciation from her cousin who lives in another country.The concern about dialects is that they can lead to
A)humiliation by peers.
B)a delay in the development of the child's receptive vocabulary set.
C)decreased fund of knowledge.
D)spelling problems for the child.
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) Children who are raised bilingual from birth can be expected to:
A)reach the language milestones in both languages at about the same time.
B)to learn the pragmatics of one language before the other language.
C)develop a receptive vocabulary set in only one language.
D)to develop inside-out skills in one language before their second language.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) The overt rejection of middle-class values by low-SES students is referred to as a ________ culture.
Q2) The knowledge,rules,traditions,and attitudes that guide behaviour in a particular group of people represent the ________ of that group.
Q3) What are some things schools and teachers can do to accommodate cultural diversity?
Q4) Which of the following findings is \(\bold{true}\) of Okagaki's research in Hawaiian classrooms?
A)Cooperative group work positively impacted student learning and participation.
B)Individualized instruction positively impacted student learning and participation.
C)Students did not wish to be placed in groups with the opposite sex.
D)Parents were most critical of teacher's employing an emergent model of reading.
Q5) Believing that all people from a particular country are friendly would be an example of prejudice that could be considered positive.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The commonly used index of wealth,power and influence is _________.
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Chapter 7: Behavioural Views of Learning
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Q1) In the above example involving Lisa,feeling ill at the prospect of going to the music class served as the
A)conditioned response.
B)conditioned stimulus.
C)unconditioned response.
D)unconditioned stimulus.
Q2) List the basic types of reinforcement schedules and describe the performances that they are likely to produce.Include performance patterns,rates,and effects of persistence.
Q3) In classical conditioning,the response made to the unconditioned stimulus before conditioning occurs is the ________ response.
Q4) According to the above case study.Positive reinforcement/negative reinforcement
Q5) What is functional behavioural assessment (FBA)and how would a teacher use FBA?
Q6) Shaping is an appropriate method for developing new behaviour when
A)no appropriate reinforcers can be found.
B)performance is otherwise too poor to gain reinforcement.
C)students are capable of the behaviour but seldom perform it.
D)there is no one available to model the appropriate behaviour.
Q7) Removal of a given reinforcement leads to ________.
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Views of Learning
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Q1) Which one of the following persons most clearly illustrates the concept of elaboration?
A)Alicia asks the teacher to define percentages in a different way than how they were defined in the text.
B)Bart calculates percentages for the homework problems assigned by the teacher.
C)John recognizes that he can use percentages in calculating his team's batting average.
D)Mary rehearses the steps for computing the statistics needed to describe the school population.
Q2) If a student tries very hard to remember the name of a book author,he or she is searching knowledge stored as an explicit memory.
A)True
B)False
Q3) You are given a math problem to solve.As you try to remember the formula involved,what memory system is being searched?
A)Long-term semantic
B)Schematic
C)Sensory register
D)Working procedural
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Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes
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Q1) Formulating new answers by going beyond the simple application of previously learned rules to reach a goal is ________.
Q2) What is meant by problem solving? Identify some of the factors that inhibit problem solving and suggest strategies for reducing their effects.
Q3) According to the text,which statement concerning the superior capabilities of experts is FALSE?
A)Experts deal with problems at a deeper level.
B)Experts perceive large,meaningful patterns in given information.
C)Experts spend a small amount of time to analyze a given problem.
D)Experts perform tasks quickly and with few errors.
Q4) What heuristic is Felita most likely applying when she assumes her husband will be late to pick her up since he has been late the last three evenings?
A)Belief perseverance
B)Confirmation bias
C)Availability heuristic
D)Representation heuristic
Q5) According to the above case study.Negative transfer:
Q6) Knowledge about out own thinking processes is _________.
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Chapter 10: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism
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Q1) The quiet captain in a cooperative learning group is responsible for maintaining the
Q2) In their writing group,Aron has become the expert on how to write an introductory sentence.When students teach other students about the part in which they have expertise,they are engaged in what type of cooperative learning structure?
A)Jigsaw
B)Group work
C)Reciprocal questioning
D)Service learning
Q3) Although there are many cognitive apprenticeship models,they all share the feature of conceptual scaffolding that is gradually reduced as students become more competent and proficient.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Vygotsky's approach to learning is an example of what type of constructivism?
A)Both externally and internally directed
B)Externally directed
C)Internally directed
D)Logically directed
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Chapter 11: Social Cognitive Views of Learning and Motivation
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Q1) Josie sees Ray successfully do a cartwheel on a balance beam.Josie is benefitting from
A)a vicarious experience.
B)a mastery experience.
C)heighten self-efficacy.
D)social persuasion.
Q2) Tala observes Don fall down when climbing in the new playground.After that she becomes afraid to play on the new playground.This best exemplifies what possible outcome of observational learning?
A)directing attention
B)fine-tuning already-learned behaviours
C)strengthening or weakening inhibitions
D)arousing emotion
Q3) Beliefs about our ability to accomplish tasks in a given situation is ________.
Q4) Vicarious experiences involve someone else modelling accomplishments.
A)True
B)False
Q5) A child who raises her hand because others do so and she wants to imitate the behaviours of her peers is an example of the ________
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Chapter 12: Motivation in Learning and Teaching
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Q1) Doug's family is very poor,so he often goes to school with no breakfast and a very small lunch packet.According to Maslow,Doug is failing his classes because what type of needs are not being met?
A)Aesthetic needs
B)Deficiency needs
C)Growth needs
D)Self-actualization needs
Q2) Pat believes that the reason for her success in reading is the effort she puts into it.Pat is reflecting what type of locus of control?
A)External
B)Internal
C)Stable
D)Transitional
Q3) According to the above case study.Suggest some strategies that you could use to help Trina to be successful if you were her teacher.
Q4) The natural tendency to engage in certain types of activities is called ________ motivation.
Q5) The interest state that arouses,directs,and maintains behaviour is ________.
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Chapter 13: Creating Learning Environments
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Q1) Kounin has suggested that the key element of effective classroom manager's styles is prevention of misbehaviour.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What is the purpose of the paraphrase rule?
A)To clarify understanding
B)To elaborate the concept idea
C)To identify a hidden message
D)To point out a problem
Q3) Kathy's student teacher works well with small groups,but she finds it difficult to keep track of the rest of the class during small group sessions.Kathy should work with her student teacher to develop
A)group focus.
B)movement management.
C)overlapping.
D)withitness.
Q4) The informal rules that define when and how students may interact with one another during given activities are called ________ structures.
Q5) Activities that are accomplished in the classroom are described as ________.
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Chapter 14: Teaching Every Student
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Q1) One way of incorporating active learning into lectures is to use ________.
Q2) Demonstrate your understanding of Bloom's taxonomy for the cognitive domain by listing and describing each level.Be sure to list the levels in order and explain the significance of the sequence.
Q3) Teaching experience is considered to have the strongest relationship with student learning of all the characteristics noted by your text.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Although similar to the recitation strategy,________ should be more like instructional conversations.
Q5) What level of Bloom's taxonomy is most difficult,if not impossible,to measure with multiple-choice tests?
A)Analysis
B)Understanding
C)Remembering
D)Creating
Q6) An instructional strategy in which teachers pose questions and students answer is called ________.
Q7) The heart of the recitation method of teaching is ________.
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Chapter 15: Classroom Assessment,grading,and Testing
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Q1) What type of test would provide the most useful information for the following question: "Are the learning outcomes for the new unit sequenced appropriately?"
A)Diagnostic
B)Formative
C)Placement
D)Summative
Q2) A grade-equivalent score of 8.3 means that a student is capable of performing as well as an average eighth grader in the third month of school.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Rob scored exactly in the middle of his class on the social studies exam.A valid interpretation of Rob's performance is that he scored exactly at the A)center of a symmetrical frequency distribution. B)mean of the class.
C)median of the class.
D)mode of the class.
Q4) According to the above case study.Would her grading system be considered norm-referenced? Why or why not?
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