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Introduction to Educational Psychology explores foundational theories, principles, and research findings related to how people learn in educational settings. The course examines topics such as cognitive, emotional, and social development; motivation; individual differences; assessment strategies; and classroom management. Students will analyze how these psychological concepts apply to diverse learning environments, and how educators can use this knowledge to enhance teaching effectiveness, support student growth, and create inclusive classrooms. Through case studies and practical applications, the course prepares students to better understand learners and the learning process.
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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) Negative correlations are typically weaker than positive correlations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Research that is designed to determine the relations between two variables is a(n)________ study.
Answer: correlational
Q3) Correlations provide the basis for interpretations about cause and effect.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) As teachers' experience grows,they tend to become more likely to judge their success by their students' successes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) When beginning teachers confront everyday classroom life,they often experience ________________.
Answer: reality shock.
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Development and Language
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Q1) Application of Vygotsky's zone of proximal development concept would include
A)making new tasks slightly beyond the student's current level of ability.
B)not introducing new tasks until prerequisite tasks are satisfactorily mastered.
C)requiring the student to work completely independently,regardless of success or failure.
D)using highly structured materials to introduce new content rather than semi-structured tasks.
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following pairs of factors that influence thinking is thought by Piaget to be genetic or inherited tendencies?
A)Accommodation and assimilation
B)Adaptation and organization
C)Assimilation and schemes
D)Schemes and equilibration
Answer: B
Q3) According to Piaget,when environmental events cause changes in existing schemes,________ occurs.
Answer: accommodation
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Chapter 3: Self and Social and Moral Development
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Q1) Teachers who observe children with frequent,severe bruises and other signs of physical and behavioural trauma should be alerted to the possibility of ________.
Answer: child abuse
Q2) An "obedience" orientation characterizes Kohlberg's stage of moral reasoning known as ________.
Answer: preconventional
Q3) Andrea is driving home from the library at 2:00 in the morning.She stops for a red light and waits,even though no one is in sight.After looking again carefully in all directions,she drives across against the light.According to Kohlberg,what level of moral reasoning is reflected by Andrea's decision to cross the intersection?
A)Conventional
B)Nonconventional
C)Postconventional
D)Preconventional
Answer: C
Q4) According to Urie Bronfenbrenner,families and teachers are part of a child's ________ system.
Answer: micro
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Chapter 4: Learner Differences and Learning Needs
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Q1) Inclusion,as it relates to special education,means that students will
A)be included in regular classrooms for each activity in the daily routine of the school.
B)become involved in the development and implementation of his/her IEP.
C)demonstrate normal ability within his/her handicapping condition.
D)participate in the typical subject-matter lessons in the school's regular classrooms.
Q2) What type of approach to understanding language seems best for students who are hard of hearing?
A)A combination of speech and manual reading methods
B)Finger spelling only
C)Sign language only
D)Speech reading only
Q3) A disorder characterized by uncontrolled seizures is called ________.
Q4) A student who is considered "educationally blind"
A)can see class materials as long as they are of higher print quality.
B)can see class materials as long as they are printed very large.
C)requires the use of braille materials in order to learn.
D)becomes irritable when they have to work with a "buddy" in class.
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) 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.
Q2) Barry was forced to learn biology for a semester in Italy.The instruction took place entirely in Italian,his second language.According to some psychologists,this approach is likely to lead Barry to be
A)bilingual.
B)unilingual.
C)semilingual.
D)experiencing code-switching.
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) In applying guidelines to avoid gender bias in teaching,we should remember that A)boys have superior mathematical skills compared to girls.
B)we should encourage boys to enrol in home economics classes.
C)we should use gender-free language as much as possible.
D)girls tend to excel in math story problems compared to boys.
Q2) The commonly used index of wealth,power and influence is _________.
Q3) A group of people who are discriminated against by the dominate culture is called a(n)________ group by sociologists.
Q4) Anderson and Gunderson's (1997)research on cultural beliefs about learning to read and write among Chinese-,Iranian-,and Indo-Canadian parents showed that they A)hold different views about literacy development than those favoured by elementary teachers.
B)believe that adult standards should be significantly relaxed for young children.
C)believe that invented spellings are a useful step on the path to literacy.
D)understand that individual differences in learning are only moderate predictors of success in school.
Q5) Gender discrimination practices in classrooms foster _________.
Q6) Define gender bias and describe how it has been expressed in school.
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Chapter 7: Behavioural Views of Learning
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Q1) "Reward" and "Reinforcer" may be used synonymously in psychology.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) Removal of a given reinforcement leads to ________.
Q4) In an experiment,an electric can opener is used to open a can,and no salivation by the subject is detected.After a number of pairings between the can opener's operation and food,any time the can opener is used,the subject salivates.The conditioned response in this study is the
A)can opener.
B)food.
C)salivation to the can opener.
D)salivation to the food.
Q5) According to the above case study.Positive reinforcement/negative reinforcement
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Q6) Any consequence that strengthens the behaviour it follows is a(n)________.
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Views of Learning
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Q1) An educational application designed to reduce the impact of the serial-position effect is to
A)begin teaching important materials at the beginning of class and deal with administrative tasks later.
B)break down the lesson into small parts that can be handled quite easily.
C)provide a preview of the next period at the end of class rather than a review of what was covered today.
D)start a class with seatwork,teach new information,and end the class with seatwork whenever possible.
Q2) Do we ever truly forget anything? Describe how information is retrieved from longterm memories and the processes that prevent or limit accurate recall.
Q3) The key to maintaining information in long-term memory is rehearsal.
A)True
B)False
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.
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Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes
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Q1) Frank was supposed to push three wheelbarrows back to the barn,and he wasn't relishing the idea of three trips.Then in a flash he reorganized the problem.He loaded two wheelbarrows onto the third and made one trip.In doing this,he demonstrated A)flexibility.
B)functional fixedness.
C)insight.
D)response set.
Q2) 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.
Q3) Use of the READS method would probably have questionable benefits for A)children in early elementary school.
B)encouraging a distributed practice schedule.
C)high school students.
D)improving recall of information from the text.
Q4) According to the above case study.Negative transfer:
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Chapter 10: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism
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Q1) When pre-service teachers engage in student teaching or capstone experience they are learning with the support and guidance of an expert teacher,which is based on the idea that knowledge and skills are best learned in the context in which they will be later used in the real world setting.This model of teacher preparation emphasizes ________ learning.
Q2) In the Jigsaw method,one student leader is responsible for teaching the material to the group.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to your text,group work and cooperative learning are simply different terms used for the same instructional approach.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In cooperative learning groups,the primary role of the materials monitor is to select the material to be studied.
A)True
B)False
Q5) When students are confronted with real situations that have meaning for them,the learning is ________.
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Chapter 11: Social Cognitive Views of Learning and Motivation
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Q1) Which one of the following quotes is an example of high self-efficacy?
A)"I am usually good at math,so I will do well in this class."
B)"I am usually lucky on this type of test,so I should do well on this one."
C)"The teacher hates me,so I know I will flunk this course."
D)"The math teacher is easy-going,so I should do well in this class."
Q2) According to Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory,peers
A)can harm student motivation.
B)are more important than teachers in regards to student motivation.
C)are known to have negative influences on promoting self-regulated learning.
D)can serve as important models and facilitate student learning.
Q3) In addition to academic learning skills,self-regulated learners have
A)more time to learn new tasks
B)good self-control abilities
C)the belief that problem-solving is easy
D)a tendency to set unrealistic goals
Q4) There is no direct relationship between self-esteem and self-efficacy.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Self-regulation involves activating and maintaining one's ________,behaviours,and emotions.
Chapter 12: Motivation in Learning and Teaching
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Q1) Weiner believes that there are two important dimensions that have important implications for motivation: (1)responsibility and (2)stability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Attribution theories of motivation describe how an individual's explanations,justifications,and excuses influence motivation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Students with performance goals as opposed to learning goals are concerned primarily with A)achievement motivation.
B)looking good in front of others.
C)bettering themselves in terms of skill competencies.
D)finishing tasks so that they can seek new challenges.
Q4) In most humanistic theories,motivation is based on A)extrinsic rewards.
B)intrinsic needs.
C)material wealth.
D)social status.
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Chapter 13: Creating Learning Environments
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Q1) The important goal of classroom management to expand the sheer number of minutes available for learning is called ________.
Q2) Canter and Canter's approach to dealing with behaviour problems by making expectations clear and following through with defined consequences is called ________ discipline.
Q3) If a student tells you that he broke up with his girlfriend last night and was unable to complete his homework,it is the teacher's responsibility to see that the homework gets completed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Experts agree there are times when teachers must use grades as a means of discipline or penalty for misbehaviour.
A)True
B)False
Q5) To know what is happening in the classroom and to identify what is important are the keys to dealing effectively with ________ problems.
Q6) Keeping track of and supervising several activities at the same time is called
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Chapter 14: Teaching Every Student
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Q1) Scripted cooperation is a learning strategy for pairs of students to take turns summarizing material and criticizing their summaries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the two types of expectation effects that can occur in the classroom.How can these expectation effects influence student learning? What can you,the teacher,do to combat the negative effects and promote the positive effects of these expectations? Provide specific illustrations of both types of outcomes.
Q3) Group discussions are most appropriate for use when A)questions require convergent answers.
B)students are young or less mature.
C)students have difficulty expressing themselves.
D)the class is well prepared to evaluate and synthesize.
Q4) According to your text,a situation in which a teacher fails to alter their expectations about a student after they show moderate improvement and the student then continues to achieve at their expected level is called a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Classroom Assessment,grading,and Testing
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Q1) If scores of individuals are consistent over time,the test is said to have high
Q2) When you write multiple-choice items,you should use A)as much wording as possible in the distractors.
B)distractors that require fine discriminations.
C)"none of the above" less frequently than "all of the above."
D)stems that present a single problem.
Q3) A test or any assessment instrument is objective to the extent that it
A)is free of biases of the test administrators and scorers.
B)measures only a very few variables at a time.
C)predicts an important and realistic criterion.
D)yields the same score each time an individual takes it.
Q4) Common types of authentic assessments include portfolios and exhibitions. A)True
B)False
Q5) A test designed to measure differences in achievement among students is ________.
Q6) The process in assessment that provides a numeric description of a characteristic or event is ________.
Q7) Compare and contrast criterion-referenced and norm-referenced grading.
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