Ed Psych Exam 1

A set of principles that relates social environment to psychosocial development is:

psychosocial theory

A student knows that if 2 + 5 = 7, then 7 - 5+2. This requires which of the following cognitive characteristics?

reversibility

According to Erickson, a psychosocial crisis is:

critical set of issues that must be resolved before progressing through stages

Instruction adapted to the current developmental stage of the child is called:

developmentally appropriate curriculum

How do intentional teachers achieve a sense of efficacy?

Continually assessing instruction

Reflectivity, a hallmark of identity development, refers to:

Ability to assess self

The trend to use social comparison information to evaluate the self appears to correspond with developmental changes in

Academic self esteem

Ramona is a first year teacher. She prepared tirelessly all summer for a fifth-grade position. As school approached she learned the fifth-grade position was eliminated and instead she would fill a first-grade position. Ramona knows in order to be an effective teacher she will most need to:

Adjust the classroom to have developmentally appropriate materials

Solitary play is often carried out

Alone with toys

In one study, researchers investigated the relation between students' attentiveness in class and their achievements and IQs. This type of study is an example of a

Correlation study

Self-esteem refers to how an individual

Assesses his/her own strengths

Research finds that one of the most powerful predictors of a teacher's impact on students is

Belief that you do make a difference

Which of the following cognitive characteristics explains the difficulty preoperational children have with the beaker of water problem?

Centration

Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development proposes that

Children develop through 4 distinct stages

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the role of educational psychology in teacher preparation?

Do research that will guide teaching

From vygotsky's view point, which would be the best description of developmentally appropriate activities?

Give children a range of activities; some within their ability, others that require assistance

Intentional teachers are constantly thinking about:

Outcomes

The abilities that make up formal operational thought include:

Hypothetical reasoning, Thinking abstractly, forming concepts, testing hypotheses

Effective teaching occurs best when a teacher is prepared with

Knowledge of content and the skills to share it

Teacher efficacy is the degree to which teachers do what?

Make a difference in the classroom

During sixth hour, 2 students whisper to each other about the upcoming dance. The teacher continues discussing the lesson while walking toward the students. The students stop whispering and begin taking notes. Which principle of classroom management has the teacher employed?

Mildest intervention possible

Which of Marcia's identity status levels is associated with the highest degree of anxiety for adolescents?

Moratorium

Mr. Davis is hoping to learn why some of his sixth-grade students are performing poorly during the third quarter. He finds that the more students are absent, the lower his or her grades are likely to be. His results reflect:

Negative correlation

An educational research experiment conducted in an actual classroom is called

Randomized field experiment

A researcher wants to study the effects of rewards on motivation and needs to set up two groups: one to receive rewards for its efforts and one to receive no rewards. What procedure should the researcher use to guarantee both groups are essentially equivalent?

Randomly assign students to each group

Piagets believed that children are born with an innate tendency to make sense of their own environments by creating

Schemes

One way toward becoming an intentional teacher in your beginning years is to:

Seek out a mentor

Piaget described cognitive development as a sequence of stages. Which of the following represents his stages in developmental order?

Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

A nursery school teacher tells a mother that her child engages in parallel play. The teacher might see the child frequently playing

Side by side, but not together

Symbols that cultures create to help people think, communicate and solve problems are referred to as:

Sign systems

Research-based professional development opportunities offer teachers

The methods known to make a difference

The aim of research in educational psychology is:

To test theories that guide our actions

A researcher carefully planned a study and randomly assigned children to one of two groups, ensuring that

Two groups are basically equivalent

According to our text, pedagogy is the link between which of the following?

What the teacher wants students to learn and what students can learn because of their teaching

According to Piaget, accommodation occurs when

When a new object does not fit the existing scheme

When children enter middle school or junior high school, self-esteem is

at its lowest

According to Piaget, assimilation occurs when

children incorporate a new object into an existing scheme

Adolescents seek to share their inner feelings most often with

close friends

teachers who provide opportunites for feedback and practice are demonstrating which approach of social skill development

coaching

Piaget's view of cognitive development as a process in which children actively build systems of meaning and understanding of reality through their experience and interactions in known as

constructivism

According to our text, which of the following is the most frequently used research method in educational psychology?

correlational

Mr. Nicely often begins his lectures by presenting students with two ideas or observations that apparently conflict. He feels this method of presenting a paradox arouses students' interest. From Piaget's point of view, the teacher is making use of his students' natural response to:

disequilibrium

Taunting, harassment, and aggression toward weaker or friendless peers occur at all age levels, but can become particularly serious as children enter:

early adolescence

Which cognitive characteristic is Athena showing when she plays hide and seek and pulls the drape over head with the rest of her body showing believing no one will see her?

egocentrism

Mr. Sanchez randomly assigns half of his class to study their home state on their computer and the other half of the class to use their social studies textbook. Mr. Sanchez then compares the two groups by giving both a test on basic state history. What type of research did he conduct?

experimental

The term development refers to how people

grow, adapt, and change over the course of their lifetimes

Nurture has a greater effect than nature on the following domain of development:

moral

An example of the Vygotsky notion of scaffolding would be:

mother helping a child ride a bike

Dahlia's toy is covered by a blanket, but the child does not remove the blanket to look for the toy because he believes the toy is gone. This scenario shows an infant's inability to grasp which idea?

object permanence

A belief about your strengths, weaknesses, abilities, attitudes, and values is known as

self concept