Educational Psychology Final

Which of the following is the best example of the role of a teacher according to Piaget's Constructivist Learning Theory? Note that this is NOT the "radical constructivist" approach.

• The teacher sits at the desk and expects the students to teach themselves.

• The teacher spends the entire class lecturing.

• The teacher acts as a guide on the side and provides scaffolding to help structure learning.

• The teacher delegates the smartest students to teach the rest of the students.

Which of the following is the best example of the role of a student according to Piaget's Constructivist Learning Theory?

• The students teach each other the material.

• The students are primarily responsible for their own learning.

• The teacher spends the entire class lecturing.

• The teacher delegates the smartest students to teach the rest of the students.

What is reciprocal questioning?

• When students ask each other questions in small groups and answer the questions together.

• The students continually question the teacher.

• The students bring home questions to ask their parents and dog.

• The students do not interact with the lesson material.

What is cognitive constructivism?

• A type of learning where the teachers lectures during class.

• The form of learning when students are required to teach themselves with no modeling or scaffolding.

• View of learning that says students are responsible for constructing their own knowledge

• When teachers exemplify the role of "sage on the stage."

RING TOSS!

What is an example of scaffolding?

• When the teacher highlights the important information on lecture handouts for struggling readers.

• When a teacher provides a graphic organizer to help students organize their textbook reading.

• When a teacher includes pictures on handouts to help EL learners understand the words.

• All of these answers.

Discrimination is the element of prejudice that specifically deals with a person’s:

• behaviors and actions toward others.

• beliefs about others

• attitudes and feelings about others

• impressions of others as outsiders

For cooperative learning to be effective, the teacher should

• assign roles (like secretary) and embed individual accountability into the task

• assume all students have contributed equally when assigning grades

• require students to meet outside of class

• ask the principal to come to the classroom when the task is introduced

In the Jigsaw approach

• An expert group researches a topic then reports the information back to the home group.

• An expert group researches a topic and writes a three page summary of the information they learned.

• The teacher acts as the "sage on the stage" to ensure students learn all the information in the lecture.

• Students work together to be the first group to finish a puzzle.

Miss Alex wants her students to start their bell work and stop talking when the second morning bell rings. By pairing this stimulus-response sequence, Miss Alex is applying which of the following principles of learning?

• punishment

• positive reinforcement

• operant conditioning

• contiguity

PRESENT THROW!

Which of the following is an example of a negative reinforcement?

• Giving a student a Krabby Patty for exhibiting good behavior.

• Removing the requirement to do homework if the class exhibits good behavior.

• Punishing a student by taking away recess when she exhibits bad behavior.

• Sending the student to the principal when she exhibits bad behavior.