Psychology of Learning Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Psychology of Learning explores the fundamental theories, principles, and processes involved in how humans and animals acquire, retain, and apply knowledge and skills. The course examines classical and operant conditioning, observational learning, cognitive processes, motivation, developmental influences, and the social and cultural contexts of learning. Students will analyze key experiments, discuss major theoretical perspectives such as behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism and consider implications for education, behavior modification, and lifelong learning. Emphasis is placed on applying scientific findings to real-world situations and diverse learning environments.
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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) Use of the "common sense" approach to teaching is viewed by educational psychologists as
A)appropriate in most circumstances.
B)inappropriate unless supported by research.
C)more reliable than scientific judgments.
D)the main factor that differentiates experts from novices.
Answer: B
Q2) A positive correlation between two factors indicates that the factors
A)are NOT necessarily related.
B)are strongly related.
C)decrease proportionately.
D)tend to increase or decrease together.
Answer: D
Q3) Negative correlations are typically weaker than positive correlations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Broad frameworks that attempt to explain relationships between sets of variables are called ________.
Answer: theories
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Chapter 2: Cognitive Development
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Q1) The role of "private speech" in Vygotsky's view is to
A)call attention to oneself during play.
B)guide one's activities in solving a problem.
C)encourage children to learn new words.
D)stimulate the development of language from simple words to full sentences.
Answer: B
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) Specialization of the two hemispheres of the brain involves A)Broca's area.
B)lateralization.
C)the primary auditory cortex.
D)Wernicke's area.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Self, Social, and Moral Development
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Q1) Erikson interprets development from the perspective of what theory?
A)Psychosexual
B)Psychosocial
C)Psychosomatic
D)Sociocultural
Answer: B
Q2) Which one of the following statements is TRUE regarding the development of self-concept?
A)A person with a positive self-concept in one school subject is almost certain to have a positive self-concept in other subjects.
B)Older children's academic self-concept may be quite different than their physical self-concept.
C)Poor performance is most damaging to a student's self-concept in science and math courses.
D)The developing self-concept remains quite stable throughout early and late childhood.
Answer: B
Q3) 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) Using the models of intelligence given by the text as a guide,define what is meant by intelligence.What are some factors that affect the reliability of intelligence tests?
Q2) A student can be both gifted and learning disabled.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bill,age 16,is bright and articulate.His classmates watch him with great interest because he "will try almost anything." Unfortunately,his reading level is very low,probably no higher than fourth-grade level,and he does not succeed in most courses.This description of Bill would lead one to think first about the possibility of A)a learning disability.
B)an emotional disturbance.
C)giftedness.
D)mental retardation.
Q4) In their definition of giftedness,Renzulli and Reis added the affective characteristic of
Q5) Define what generally constitutes an emotional behavior disorder.Describe four out of the six categories of disorders presented in Woolfolk's text.
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Chapter 5: Language Development, Language Diversity, and Immigrant Education
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Q1) Darnel,an African-American second grader who uses nonstandard English,complained about his partner in spelling practice."Fred not say nothin' today." Which of the following would be the most relevant reply that the teacher could make?
A)"If he's not saying anything today,do you think something is bothering him?"
B)"In school language we should say 'Fred is not saying anything today.'"
C)"Darnel,please remember: 'not' goes with 'anything.' We don't use it with 'nothing.'"
D)"Why don't you ask Fred what the matter is? Maybe something is wrong."
Q2) Moving between two speech forms is called __________________.
Q3) While immigrants leave their home country voluntarily,______________ leave their country voluntarily,but leave because they believe their home country is not safe.
Q4) Compare alternative approaches to teaching bilingual children.Should a child's use of his/her non-English language in classroom learning be discouraged or directly integrated with learning in Standard English?
Q5) The basics of word orders,or syntax,are mastered by children well before they enter the first grade.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Culture and Diversity
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Q1) The commonly used index of wealth,power,and influence is ________.
Q2) Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
A)Achieving a sexual orientation for gay and lesbian students is a two-stage process.
B)Most researchers agree that sexual identity is permanent.
C)One's sexual identity can change over the years.
D)Gay males are more likely to experience discomfort in their sexual identity compared to lesbians.
Q3) The knowledge,rules,traditions,and attitudes that guide behavior in a particular group of people represent the ________ of that group.
Q4) Most children do not have a good sense of gender roles until they reach about age 10.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The learning style of Native Americans appears to be
A)field-independent.
B)global,analytic.
C)global,visual.
D)reasoning by inference.
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Chapter 7: Behavioral Views of Learning
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Q1) When teachers take away privileges for students' inappropriate behavior,they are applying ________ punishment.
Q2) An example of the use of positive practice is having students
A)develop sentences using commonly misused words.
B)ignore mistakes and practice the items they know.
C)study a list of commonly misspelled words.
D)write "I will not chew gum" 100 times.
Q3) Classical conditioning
Q4) Which one of the following is the correct sequence of phases for Bandura's model of observational learning?
A)Attention,retention,motivation,and production
B)Attention,retention,production,motivation
C)Motivation,attention,production,retention
D)Motivation,retention,reduction,attention
Q5) Design a self-management program that Kelly could adopt to improve his academic performance.
Q6) The behavioral strategy of successive approximations is called ________.
Q7) Using the above strategies together with other principles,briefly describe the overall approach you personally would favor for working with Treena.
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Chapter 8: Cognitive Views of Learning
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Q1) You are asked to learn the 50 U.S.states,so you divide the country into geographic areas and set about your task.You are more likely to succeed than someone who begins to learn the states at random,because your system
A)capitalizes on the serial-position effect by fragmenting the task.
B)employs cues to organize your transfer from sensory memory.
C)helps you encode the names of states at the time of recall.
D)minimizes proactive interference through the 'blocking' effect.
Q2) In order to help students become better learners,it is recommended that they
A)be provided a variety of strategies and practices.
B)be taught strategies,but not specific tactics.
C)master one effective strategy before introducing another.
D)receive strategies training that focuses on procedures.
Q3) When Mr.Wilson wants his students to learn about a familiar concept and practice thinking skills at the same time,he should stress
A)concept attainment.
B)exemplar of the concept.
C)nonexamples of the concept.
D)positive instances of the concept.
Q4) Information may be lost from working memory by decay or ________.
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Chapter 9: Complex Cognitive Processes
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Q1) The aspect of means-end analysis that involves distance reduction means pursuing a path that moves directly to the goal.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Learning domain-specific information is now considered to be an effective orientation for promoting general transfer.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When students do not have existing schemas that suggest an immediate solution to the problem,they must take a schema-driven route to solve the problem.
A)True
B)False
Q4) ________ is a general plan for approaching a learning task.
Q5) Formulating new answers by going beyond the simple application of previously learned rules to reach a goal is ________.
Q6) ________ is the ability to regulate one's thinking and learning.
Q7) Working backwards:
Q8) Negative transfer:
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Chapter 10: The Learning Sciences and Constructivism
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Q1) How might the use of cooperative learning strategies help students to overcome the diverseness in their science backgrounds?
Q2) The way that we think about and represent information reflects that fact that we need to interact with the world.This theme is referred to the theory of _____________ within the field of cognitive sciences.
Q3) Which one of the following students is playing the role of reflector in a cooperative learning group?
A)Amanda makes certain that the questions of all group members are asked and answered.
B)Gary makes sure that the group is aware of its progress or lack of progress toward the group goal.
C)Helen is responsible for keeping the noise level of the group at a reasonable pitch.
D)Lawrence solicits equal participation of group members and restrains dominance by any group member.
Q4) Collaboration with others in learning is believed by many constructivists to involve working together to co-construct meaning through ________.
Q5) In cooperative learning,students interact ________.
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Chapter 11: Social Cognitive Views of Learning and Motivation
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Q1) In recent years,Bandura focused on cognitive factors such as self-perceptions,expectations,and beliefs,so his theory is now called a ________ theory.
Q2) A student who has good follow-through for completing a task is said to have volition. A)True B)False
Q3) Having a strong sense of will power is also referred to as ___________.
Q4) The following statement is TRUE about the relation between self-efficacy and self-esteem.
A)There appears to be direct relationship between self-efficacy and self-esteem.
B)There is a strong negative correlation between self-efficacy and self-esteem.As self-efficacy increases,self-esteem decreases.
C)There is a strong positive correlation between self-efficacy and self-esteem.As self-efficacy increases,self-esteem increases.
D)There is a strong relationship between self-efficacy and self-esteem only for non-academic tasks.There is no relationship between self-efficacy and self-esteem for academic tasks.
Q5) Beliefs about our ability to accomplish tasks in a given situation is ________.
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Chapter 12: Motivation in Learning and Teaching
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Q1) Which one of the following statements is the most accurate definition of motivation?
A)An inner state that arouses,directs,and maintains a person's behavior
B)An inner state that causes a person to initiate an action
C)The level of involvement a person has in a chosen activity
D)The degree of persistence a person has toward completing an activity
Q2) Ms.Kirkendall wants to help students develop more positive self-perceptions.What approach is recommended for her to use?
A)Curving grades so that more As and Bs than usual will be assigned
B)Encouraging and helping the students to set high goals for themselves
C)Providing continual encouragement for students to try harder to succeed
D)Raising grades based on individual efforts to improve the work assigned
Q3) Suppose that the boys' school is holding the annual fund-raising drive.Each student is asked to set goals for selling candy.(Last year the highest total sale was $225. )What is your prediction regarding the nature of the goals likely to be set by Bill and Elliot? Provide a rationale by explaining your predictions.
Q4) Anxiety can interfere with attention,learning,and testing even at the same time.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Creating Learning Environments
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Q1) In regards to personal territories and action zones,researchers recently have recommended that teachers
A)utilize engaged learning time and encourage students to work independently.
B)not rely on computers that can slow down the action in a classroom.
C)design the physical space of the classroom so that students are forced to sit in dyads. D)"spread the action around" by moving around the room when possible and asking direct questions of students who are seated far away.
Q2) The number of minutes available for learning is called engaged time.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Woolfolk,one of the best ways to avoid discipline problems is to A)have a comprehensive set of rules.
B)keep the group focused on productive learning.
C)make the classroom a pleasant environment.
D)refer problem students to the counselor.
Q4) Teachers who appear to have "eyes in the back of their head" due to their awareness of everything that happens in the classroom are considered by Kounin to be skilled in
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Chapter 14: Teaching Every Student
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Q1) Which one of the following objectives is complete according to Mager's guidelines?
A)Given colored pictures of fruits and vegetables,students will correctly classify them with a high degree of accuracy.
B)Students will correctly identify the function of the four major organs in the digestive system without using notes.
C)Students will correctly recall the major bones of the human body.
D)Using a calculator,students will solve division problems containing fractions.
Q2) Ms.Smith would like to measure her first graders' mastery of their personal information (address,phone number,spelling of name).What level of Bloom's taxonomy do her questions illustrate?
A)Application
B)Comprehension
C)Evaluation
D)Knowledge
Q3) Although similar to the recitation strategy,________ should be more like instructional conversations.
Q4) Rosenshine's teacher-centered instruction is called direct instruction,or ________.
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Chapter 15: Classroom Assessment, Grading, and Standardized Testing
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Q1) Using any grading system requires the teacher to be able to defend the grades assigned to students.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Raw score distributions with large standard deviations have greater variability in the scores than distributions based on fewer items that have small standard deviations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In what situations is the use of multiple-choice items desirable? Suggest some guidelines for how such items should be constructed.
Q4) At the beginning of the semester,Mr.Rumstead gave a formative test for the purposes of setting objectives.At the end of the course he gave the same test to determine grades.The second time this test was given,it was used as what type of test?
A)Aptitude
B)Diagnostic
C)Formative
D)Summative
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