Psychology for Educators Test Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores foundational concepts in psychology with a focus on their application within educational settings. Topics include theories of learning and motivation, cognitive and emotional development, classroom management, individual differences among learners, and strategies for fostering effective, inclusive learning environments. By understanding how students think, feel, and behave, educators will be better equipped to support diverse learners, address behavioral issues, and create positive, productive classrooms. Through case studies and practical assignments, participants will gain insights into evidence-based practices that enhance both teaching and student success.
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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) According to the law No Child Left Behind
A)research is not important for improving schools.
B)states have some say in defining "proficiency" for students.
C)initial hypotheses about education which have not been tested can still improve educational practices.
D)mandates all teachers must conduct a research project on an annual basis.
Answer: B
Q2) A statistically significant result in experimental research indicates that the result is a true finding.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) How might descriptive research also be used in the above study? Describe an example.
Answer: The researcher would collect many types of information regarding the characteristics and background of the students in the cooperative learning situation.The researcher might report students' mathematics scores by gender,ethnicity,number of previous math courses,and students' level of math anxiety.The researcher could describe in detail the distribution of scores (how many earned very high or low math scores).
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Development
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Q1) How might Vygotsky explain the role of other people in shaping Mason's math skills in the two contexts? Explain.
Answer: First,the teacher may want to look at the statistics sheet Mason created.This sheet is viewed as a cultural tool and it would be important to find out if Mason shares the sheet with any other persons.For instance,what do the headings on the columns for the data communicate to others? In addition,from Vygotsky's perspective it would be important to know if Mason typically watches basketball alone or with his brother who is four years older.It may be that his brother is providing scaffolding (cues,encouragement)to Mason as they watch the game together.
Q2) Which one of the following is the clearest example of Piaget's concept of assimilation?
A)Learning that a green light means "go" and a red light means "stop."
B)Learning to paint with a new type of brush.
C)Looking at teachers as they lecture.
D)Looking at a worm and thinking that it is a snake.
Answer: D
Q3) The basis of formal operations is ________.
Answer: hypothetical-deductive reasoning
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Chapter 3: The Self, Social, and Moral Development
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Q1) What is the important base for moral reasoning in both women and men,according to relevant research?
A)Concern for caring and justice
B)Emphasis on justice
C)Importance of equality
D)Sympathy for others
Answer: A
Q2) Children experiencing the Eriksonian conflict of trust vs.mistrust are also in what Piagetian stage?
A)Concrete operations
B)Formal operations
C)Preoperational thought
D)Sensorimotor
Answer: D
Q3) People who have a positive self-concept are said to have high ________. Answer: self-esteem
Q4) Because children with learning disabilities and mental retardation may respond inappropriately to peers,they are at risk for developing feelings of ________. Answer: loneliness
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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) The average deviation IQ score for the general population is ________.
Q3) Section 504 is a state law (found in most states)that protects students against any type of discrimination.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Teachers are usually extremely accurate in identifying students who are gifted and talented.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In their definition of giftedness,Renzulli and Reis added the affective characteristic of ________.
Q6) At the top of Carroll's three-tiered intelligence model is ________.
Q7) What other interventions would you suggest to help Micah?
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Chapter 5: Language Development, Language Diversity, and Immigrant Education
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Q1) According to Luis Moll,medicine,agriculture,economics,and religion are funds of knowledge which should not be used in classroom instruction or serve as the basis of teaching.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The cultural-deficit model suggests that immigrant students
A)achieve higher than American students because of their greater motivation.
B)are just as prepared for school as students who are born in this country.
C)come from an inferior culture that leaves them at a disadvantage.
D)deserve special treatment given the obstacles they have overcome.
Q3) A _________ bilingual education approach refers to adding a second language without losing one's Heritage language.
Q4) The area of language that deals specifically with word order is called ________.
Q5) Researchers have found the best time for a child to learn a second language on his/her own is
A)during early or middle childhood
B)no one time is better than another
C)early childhood
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D)adulthood,when cognitive skills are developed
Q6) Children have a larger ________ vocabulary than expressive vocabulary.
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Chapter 6: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) Which one of the following statements is technically TRUE regarding the term minority group?
A)It is a category composed of people who have biologically transmitted traits.
B)It is a term that refers to a numerical minority compared to the total population.
C)It refers to a group of people who receives unequal or discriminatory treatment.
D)The number of these groups is decreasing slightly in nearly every one of the states.
Q2) David knows exactly when he should take part in a certain classroom activity.David has an understanding of the classroom's participation structures.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a study of the effects of a negative stereotype on college students' standardized test performances,similar results were found for both African-American and Caucasian students.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The commonly used index of wealth,power,and influence is ________.
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Chapter 7: Behavioral Views of Learning
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Q1) Mr.Saunders hates sending in his income tax forms each year and constantly worries that his return will be the "one" selected for auditing.Therefore,he completes the forms carefully and honestly in order to avoid a possible penalty,but he continues to worry about being audited.What reinforcement schedule is most likely to be involved?
A)Fixed-interval
B)Fixed-ratio
C)Variable-interval
D)Variable-ratio
Q2) Bart uses an old cigarette lighter that has become unreliable.It usually takes from one to 10 flicks to make it work.When the lighter is out of fluid,it will not work at all.By the time that Bart figures out the problem,he has tried flicking it 15 to 20 times.This situation illustrates the principle that
A)fixed-reinforcement schedules will produce the fastest performance.
B)intermittent-reinforcement schedules will aid prior learning.
C)interval-reinforcement schedules will produce the fastest performance.
D)variable-reinforcement schedules will produce the greatest persistence.
Q3) Positive reinforcement/negative reinforcement
Q4) What is functional behavioral assessment (FBA)and how would a teacher use FBA?
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Views of Learning
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Q1) In order to understand the large amounts of information inherent in complex concepts,people must develop structures or patterns called A)levels.
B)mnemonics.
C)propositions.
D)schemas.
Q2) Consciously applied skills of organizing thoughts and actions to reach a learning goal are called domain-specific strategies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Our ability to conserve something in working memory is most directly affected by the
A)executive control processes.
B)perceptual factors that we apply to the stimulus.
C)reinforcement of information.
D)strength and intensity of the initial stimulus.
Q4) With what type of learning is Taylor having difficulty? What implications do the special properties of this type of material have for learning and retention?
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Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes
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Q1) You are teaching a class of students who are very inexperienced in solving problems on their own.What is the most useful strategy for the teacher to use in order to help students solve the problems for a particular unit?
A)Combine the use of guidelines for problem solving with student self-monitoring.
B)Provide an algorithm that specifies the steps for one of the specific problems.
C)Supply general guidelines for problem solving and have students experiment through trial and error.
D)Use teacher demonstrations in conjunction with partner learning.
Q2) An exhaustive,step-by-step approach for solving a problem,in which a solution is virtually guaranteed is a(n)________.
Q3) Recognizing a problem as a "disguised" version of an old problem for which one has a solution already is called schema-driven problem solving.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Working backwards:
Q5) Creative work is original,appropriate,and________.
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Chapter 10: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism
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Q1) The guided inquiry model developed by Magnusson,Palincsar,and their colleagues involves both firsthand investigations and A)discovery methods.
B)pattern investigations.
C)secondhand investigations.
D)sequences of inquiry.
Q2) Which one of the following elements does NOT define a true cooperative learning group?
A)Collaborative skills
B)Homogenous grouping
C)Individual accountability
D)Positive interdependence
Q3) One of the goals of service learning is to encourage students to reflect upon their own role in ________.
Q4) When the teacher provides students with question stems and then asks students to answer the questions in pairs,he/she is involving the students in ________.
Q5) Collaboration with others in learning is believed by many constructivists to involve working together to co-construct meaning through ________.
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Chapter 11: Social Cognitive Views of Learning and Motivation
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Q1) 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.
Q2) In Bandura's social cognitive learning theory,the interaction among personal factors,environmental events,and behaviors is called
A)enactive learning.
B)triarchic reciprocal causality.
C)self-efficacy.
D)vicarious learning.
Q3) Self-efficacy refers to individuals' skill at managing their own study behaviors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the steps involved in self-regulated learning?
A)Modeling,reflection,self-evaluation,devising plans
B)Teaching,practice,goal-setting,reflective task analysis
C)Analyzing the task,setting goals,devising plans,enacting strategies
D)Self-efficacy,strategy use,volition
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Chapter 12: Motivation in Learning and Teaching
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Q1) 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
Q2) According to Covington and others,which one of the following would be the strongest indicator of whether an individual will be motivated to accept new challenges and risks?
A)Desire to avoid failure and seek social acceptance
B)Drive for achievement and an incremental view of ability
C)Need for achievement and an entity view of ability
D)Performance goals that are attainable
Q3) High needs for self-improvement are consonant with an entity view of ability.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Young children are more likely to hold an entity view than an incremental view of ability.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Creating Learning Environments
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Q1) What is the primary rationale for using the paraphrase rule with a class?
A)Encourage students to speak in full sentences.
B)Give students the benefit of the doubt when they break a rule.
C)Increase students' communication skills.
D)Promote classroom interactions among students.
Q2) A teacher who listens carefully to a student and then tries to paraphrase what the student is saying and feeling is using ________ listening.
Q3) 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
Q4) Weinstein and Mignano found that expert teachers primarily used detention to
A)assemble misbehaving students so they could be dealt with as a group.
B)make the consequences somewhat public so that peer pressure to behave may be encouraged.
C)prevent the student from participating in a desired extra-curricular activity.
D)talk privately with the student about why the particular misbehavior occurred.
Q5) Activities that are accomplished in the classroom are described as ________.
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Q6) According to Woolfolk,the best answer to school violence is ________.
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Chapter 14: Teaching Every Student
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Q1) Teacher clarity is a characteristic that is fairly simple to define objectively.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) Are Juanita's objectives likely to be restricted to Bloom's cognitive domain? Why or why not?
Q4) Objectives seem to be most helpful in promoting student achievement with activities that are loosely rather than highly structured.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Teacher plans should be regarded as flexible frameworks as opposed to rigid specifications.
A)True
B)False
Q6) High levels of teacher interaction with students,clear explanations,and well-organized demonstrations characterize ________ teaching.
Q7) The revised cognitive taxonomy has an added dimension of four kinds of ________.
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Chapter 15: Classroom Assessment, Grading, and Standardized Testing
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Q1) A general term for the type of testing that is used to guide planning and identify students' needs is ________ assessment.
Q2) The median is the score that occurs most often in a distribution.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Given that Dr.Williams will probably continue to use at least some multiple-choice testing,suggest some guidelines regarding when and how to use this testing format.Specifically,what objectives should multiple-choice questions test? How should items be constructed to improve their content validity for course objectives?
Q4) The midpoint or middle score of a distribution is called the ________.
Q5) Compare authentic testing to conventional testing with regard to philosophy,procedures,student roles,types of evaluation,grading,and situations that favor the use of each category of assessment procedures.
Q6) A type of authentic assessment in which students' work is collected to demonstrate progress and achievement in a particular area is a(n)__________.
Q7) When a general description of overall performance is desirable,the most appropriate type of assessment tool to use is called __________.
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