Educational Psychology Final Part 2

of the three statements below describing the effect interest has on learning and performance, which one would be described as not accurate?

interest increases the probability of high self-efficacy

choose the option below that would be most appropriate for a classroom discussion based on textbook guidelines

interpreting Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven

Erin is a 6 year old who thinks that the expression "too many cooks spoil the broth" is only about cooking soup. For lack of recognizing the more general meaning of the expression:

is typical for her age group

choose the option below that is most correct regarding the benefit of homework in the elementary grades

it has little effect on students learning but may help them develop self-regulation skills

Choose the option below that best illustrates the textbook's perspective regarding the benefit of Internet in the classroom instruction

it has potential as a learning tool, but teachers should scaffold and monitor students' use of it

choose the statement that is most accurate with regard to effects of peer groups and peer pressure

peer groups main courage either desirable qualities (honesty) or undesirable qualities (violence)

Of the strategies below, which is likely to be disadvantageous when working with parents and their students?

point out that parents who use authoritarian methods may be causing some other children behavior problems

Hailey decides to cheat on her coursework, despite having the ability to succeed without cheating. This is most clearly related to the idea known as:

self-handicapping

which one of the following statements indicates that the speaker is focused on a performance-avoidance goal?

"I need to do well in my science classes or my parents will be really mad with me"

which of the following statements implies that the student's ability is stable and uncontrollable?

"You take after you're mother: smart and sassy"

as described in the text, in instructional objective that requires students to pick out the different parts of a speech and a sentence is at which level in amended blooms taxonomy

"analyze"

according to the guidelines discussed in the text, choose the instructional objective below that is consistent with recommendations

"students will correctly conjugate regular French verbs in both present and past tenses"

according to the guidelines discussed in the text, choose the instructional objective below that is consistent with recommendations

"students will correctly convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals"

the option below that is false in relation to computer-based instruction

it is recommended even when the material can be effectively presented in other ways

according to Piaget, student in the following scenario would most likely be [blank] years old. Nick is discussing how great the world would be if we would all "make peace, not war."

14 years old

Which of the following children is likely to learn and remember the most by reading a book about snakes?

8 year old Bernard, who knows a lot more about snakes than the other three boys do

Synaptic pruning occurs in the early childhood. This is likely...

An adaptive process that allows children to deal more efficiently with their environment

Choose the option that most accurately illustrates the general concept of temperament

And inherited predisposition to interact with one's environment in certain ways

choose the option that is the best Example of relational aggression

Ann and Mara stop speaking to their friend Emily when she starts dating a boy they don't like

of the options below, which portrays the student who is least likely to be at risk?

Ann is so busy with student government, cheerleading, and varsity sports that her grades have gone from A's to C's to D's

which one of the following students is most likely to have facilitating anxiety?

Art is a little bit nervous to give his valedictorian speech, but he's practiced it several times to prepare

One of the options below is a valid reason for not depending only on intelligence tests when identifying students who are gifted. Which one?

Because of the culture dependent nature of intelligence, we may overlook students from ethnic minority groups

three of the following characterized students with a mastery goal. which one characterizes students with a performance goal?

Bernice is so anxious in the classroom that she thinks she's going to fail

choose the option below that depicts how the imaginary audience can influence the adolescents developing self-concept

Beth feels as if everyone must be working at her when she walks down the hall with her friends

three of the following statements about the roles of heredity and or environment in intelligence are accurate. which one is not accurate?

Biologists working in the human genome project have recently identified the chromosome that carries the "intelligence" gene

which of the following alternatives exemplified situational interest rather than individual interest

Blaine wants to play soccer after hearing a story told by his favorite soccer player

based on research on gender differences in students sense of self, which of the following is accurate?

Boys are more likely than girls to overrate their abilities

three of the following experiences should promote higher self-efficacy about the task in question, Which one probably won't?

Carmella does better in her Spanish class than she expected to because her teacher decided to grade the final exam on a curve

choose the option below that best takes the pattern associated with being at risk

Carry is doing poorly in all his classes because of repeated absenteeism and failure to turn and assignments

Choose the scenario where a student is clearly working in the zone of proximal development:

Cathy is beginning to learn basic woodworking techniques. She has trouble hammering a nail straight into a piece of wood unless her teacher stands beside her, helping her and reminding her of what to do.

The four children below are all learning how to play the piano. Which one of them illustrates the role of value in motivation the least?

Dena is afraid of how embarrassed she'll be if she makes a mistake

along with deficient performance academically in low general intelligence, what else needs to exist for classifying a person as possessing an intellectual disability?

Difficulty functioning in age appropriate ways in the social environment

Choose an option below that is not a typical element of effective cooperative learning activities

Each group member works on a different instructional objective

Of the scenarios below, which illustrates a student showing preconventional (stage five or six) Reasoning as Kohlberg defined it?

Emily obeys the teacher because she understands rules or useful, but with disobey them if she believed that they violated her own ethical principles

how can a teacher help her student Brenda who has no friends because her method for interacting with her peers is to tease and insult them?

Explicitly teaching her more effective ways to interact with her peers

Piaget would conclude that the student in this scenario below is the [blank] stage of development. Kelly is giving two piles of soil and he says that each pile has the same amount. When one pile is flattened with a shovel, he insists that the flattened pile has less soil.

Preoperational

Based on what you have learned about typical measurement of intelligence, which option would be least likely to be found on an intelligence test?

How many friends do you have?

what was the original purpose of intelligence testing?

Identify students who may require special educational services

choose one of the following that best to pigs what is meant by a sense of identity:

Juan sees himself as a caring individual who is truly concerned about other people's lives and needs.

from the options below, which reflects something Piaget would be least likely to recommend for elementary age students?

Lectures that describe faraway places

three of the following strategies are likely to promote moral development. Which one, although possibly appropriate in certain situations, is not likely to promote students' moral development?

Making sure that students know who "boss" is in the classroom

which one of the following teachers is most likely to stimulate interest in his or her students?

Mr. Albert gets so "fired up" about his music he's having the band learn that the members can't help but get excited too

choose the option below that illustrates a teacher using a mastering learning approach

Mr. Carroll except that students pass each test at the 80% level before beginning the next unit

three of the following teaching strategies should help students benefit from a discovery learning situation. Which strategy is least likely to be helpful?

Mr. DiCicco Takes his students to the site of a civil war battle and says, "OK, look around and see what you can find that might be of interest to your peers."

which one of the following teaching strategies is most likely to increase students' sense of empowerment?

Mr. Diaz gives his students a chance to decide which piece of literature, either To Kill a Mockingbird or Huckleberry Finn, will be assigned as their next reading assignment

choose the option below that depicts a teacher who is using a strategy consistent with general recommendations regarding the use of homework

Mr. Fox sometimes gives students an optional assignment - homework they can do if they want to

of the options below, which is the best illustration of instruction that is congruent with discovery and inquiry of learning?

Mr. Olson takes his science students to a tide pool and asks them to describe and categorize the various life forms they find there

One of the following teachers values Piaget's idea that assimilation and accommodation are both necessary for learning and cognitive development to occur. Which one?

Mrs. Wright shows students how a new topic is similar to the things they already know, but also differ in certain ways

choose the scenario below that depicts a teacher going against a principal recommended for teacher-directed instruction

Ms. Deluca talks quickly to cover the battles of World War Two because the class time is about to end

With all other things being compatible, choose the student who is most likely to have come from a home where his or her parents exhibit in authoritative style:

Patrick is well behaved and self-confident

Reggie failed his last history exam and is very upset. Which of the things below should a teacher not do to help Reggie learn to regulate his emotions?

The teacher can ask Reggie to write a paper explaining why he feels he deserves to retake the exam, and then allow him to retake the exam if the paper is good enough

choose the statement that is false.

Students' development proceeds more quickly when their behavior precede their internal variables, such as genes and traits.

which student below is handing their anxiety in the best possible way?

Tara is worried about the exam a little bit when she studies for it and takes it

choose the option that most closely describes the development of expertise in a particular subject area:

The development of expertise is characterized by the acquisition of more and better integrated knowledge about a topic

choose the option that is a true statement about IQ scores?

They are derived from comparisons with the test performance of same age peers

when considering computer-based-instruction, which scenario depicts a student who seems to be working with hypermedia?

Tiffany read some text about the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and then click on a button on the computer screen to view a photograph of Saddam Hussein.

with higher-level questions, students are asked to respond in which of the following ways?

To develop an answer students haven't specifically been taught

People who are curious about how culture impacts cognitive development would be most likely to consider [blank] approach to cognitive development.

Vygotsky's

Self-socialization is best illustrated by which of the following options?

While at a get together, Ella thinks, "all the other kids are smoking pot. If I want them to think I'm cool, I need to smoke pot as well."

a teacher is planning a unit. She starts by deciding what she fundamentally wants students to know and be able to do at the conclusion of the unit. next, she designed an assignment that will successfully assess such knowledge and skills. Finally, she creates a series of lessons that will support students and performing well on the assignment. Her message can be best

a backwards design

Elaine is a 6th grader who almost always eats lunch with the same five or six girls. they usually spread out at the table to prevent other students from joining them. sometimes they even plan together what they wear to school the next day. Elaine's group is an example of:

a clique

choose the option below that it takes the use of a computer in instruction that is most similar to an authentic activity

a computer simulation that allows students to conduct an experiment

what term is often used to describe a group where members demonstrate robust loyalty to each other, have specific and strong rules?

a gang

suppose Pat Mahomes goes back to college to get a new degree in nanotechnology. as he walks into his first class, he thinks "This is crazy, I'll never be able to do this!" how might an educational psychologist describe these thoughts?

as low self-efficacy for learning

choose the option below that best illustrates a lower-level question

asks the students to retrieve information they have previously learned

Suppose Megan is a teacher working at a high school in a low-income school district. Of the statements below, which is the most accurate regarding Megan's students?

all of Megan's students are motivated by something

Considering Vygotsky's view, why many students who are gifted not gain from instruction in the regular classroom?

because they aren't working in their zone of proximal development

choose the statement that is true about development and learning

both learning and development are affected by one's experiences

from Kohlberg's view, what is the best way for an adult to support students moral development?

by presenting moral dilemmas that create mental comfort

which one of the following is definitely and example of affect as psychologists use the term?

charles beings to panic and have an anxiety attack when he can't remember where he left the backpack he takes to school each day

using what you have learned about the development of students sense of self, being boast plausible explanation for the increasing stability of self-concept overtime:

children will behave in ways consistent with their self concepts and thereby reaffirming their views of themselves

three of the following are common disadvantages of competition in the classroom. Which one is not necessarily a disadvantage of a competitive classroom?

competition can encourage the development of positive self-efficacy

from the options below, choose the best instructional approach to use for helping two students with physical disabilities develop friendships with their non disabled peers

cooperative learning

choose the option below that would be the best instructional method for helping students learn basic concepts of chemistry well enough that they can use them when studying more advanced topics

direct instruction

the following method is best classified as [blank] Mr. New It's teaching division. First, he explains the objective after listening in demonstrates the procedure on the board. Then he has students so long division problems at the chalkboard, so he can give them guidance as they work. After the students show some proficiency, he gives them additional problems to work on independently.

direct instruction

choose the option that most closely describes Piaget's consult of equilibration.

each child revises existing schemes to incorporate new experiences

suppose Jill Bien, the First Lady of the United States, has productive expectations for her students (because she's also a professor). Which of the things below would she not do, given this information?

emphasize that effort and learning strategies, if properly used are enough for success

students are more likely to [blank] as they grow older,

evaluate their performance in terms of how it compares with that of their classmates

choose the option below that best depicts how educators can organize a peer tutoring situation in order for it to be successful

give students examples of the kinds of questions they might ask their peers

when he sees signs that a child feels ashamed or guilty about something that he or she has done, we can reasonably conclude that the child:

has acquired some sense of right and wrong

Suppose a teacher wanted to improve immigrant children self efficacy for reading English. What's the best way for a teacher to do this?

have the immigrant students watch the other immigrants like themselves successfully learn English

Frank is a good student. He attributes his success partly to studying long hours and partly to his intelligence ("It runs in the family," he says). From the perspective of attribution theory, three of the following statements are likely to be accurate descriptions of Frank. Which one is probably not an accurate description?

he is likely high to see and high value in all of his school tasks

Mr. Richardson does not expect much of his students from a poor, inner-city neighborhood. Given what we know about the effects of teacher expectations, which outcome is most likely?

his students are more likely to agree with his assessment of them, which will result in negative outcomes for them in general

there is an accident that kills several students action crashing while racing. In response to this, teachers decide to work to reduce students risk taking behaviors. In state followed recent research on adolescent risk taking, their best course of action would be to:

identify and sponsor opportunities for reasonable, supervised risk taking

the textbook recommends that teachers encourage students to set and work toward proximal goals. which of the following illustrates a proximal goal?

memorizing all of the notes and bars in a piece of music to be played at the Friday night football game

Choose the option below that has not been recognized as a drawback of cooperative learning

most of the work tends to fall on the shoulders of low-ability students

suppose Adam a young student asks his teacher to keep him from failing his assignments because it hurts his self image and self efficacy. Considering what you've learned in this class the teachers answer should be?

no, because what we know about resilient self efficacy suggest that occasional failures many successes teaches students that perseverance pays off

choose the option below that is most likely to be true for students who have a strong ethnic identity

on average, they tend to be academically and socially successful

Three of the following statements accurately describes the cultural diversity we are likely to see in children and adolescents personal, social, and moral development. Which statement is not accurate?

some cultures promote an "every man for himself" attitude and never teach the importance of helping others

Choose the statement below that is not correct regarding the benefits of cooperative learning

students are more motivated in rarely get off task during cooperative learning activities

choose the option below that is strongest example of service learning

students in a biology class collects samples local pond water, evaluate them for bacteria content and report their findings to the city health department

Which of the following below best depicts the textbook definition of a student at risk?

students likely have poor long-term developmental outcomes

authors of the text differentiate between teacher-directed and student-directed forms of instruction. choose the option below that bans describes how teachers should think about these two approaches

the best approach depends on the characteristics of the students and the goals of the instruction

Due to [blank] children's begin to transmit messages more rapidly than they did in the early years of life.

the process of myelination

the zone of proximal development is best described as [blank] according to Vygtosky's theory.

the range of tasks children can accomplish only with support

standards are general statements regarding...

what knowledge and skills students should acquire

if a student is at the preconventional level, how are they apt to describe "right" behavior according to Kohlberg's theory of moral development?

what they can get away with

Parents have been expressing concerns about the decline of youth morality and pose that teachers should be giving frequent lectures about the significance of honesty, loyalty, generosity, and so on. If the school personnel follow the research pertaining to moral development, they should let the parents know that this type of lecturing:

would do little if anything to promote moral behavior

three of the following are common sources of debilitating anxiety for children and adolescents. which ones is least likely to provoke debilitating anxiety?

writing an in-class essay twice because the teacher lost the essays that were turned in earlier