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Psych 356 Midterm Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

According to Stanovich (2015), something that interferes with rational thinking is the tendency to reason from an egocentric perspective. This is called:

a)

Dysrationalia

b)

Myside bias

c)

Cognitive miser

d)

Mindware gap

2.

Stanovich (2015) suggests that intelligence is not the only thing that plays a role in cognitive reasoning. He coined this term to explain decision-making unrelated to intelligence:

a)

Myside bias

b)

Critical thinking

c)

Cognitive miser

d)

Dysrationalia

3.

Halpbern (2006) would agree with which of the following statements about critical thinking?

a)

The best way to assess critical thinking is sequentially, allowing for open-ended responses and forced choice.

b)

Critical thinking cannot be taught effectively in schools.

c)

Only the best teachers can teach critical thinking skills.

d)

Teaching to support critical thinking and teaching to enhance transfer have opposing aims.

4.

Critical thinking (Halpbern, 2006) includes all of the following, except:

a)

Metacognition

b)

Reflection

c)

Making inferences

d)

Generating lists

5.

Gathercole (2011) indicates that at least 10% of children have this problem, which sometimes is reflected by poor attention in the classroom:

a)

Mind wandering

b)

Working memory

c)

Storage problem

d)

Retrieval problem

6.

Duke et al. (2012) identifies all of the following strategies for teaching reading comprehension, except:

a)

Reciprocal teaching

b)

Teach text structure

c)

Integrate reading and writing

d)

Differentiate instruction

7.

In class, we discussed the “reading wars,” (Rayner et al., 2002) a debate between the use of these two approaches to reading instruction:

a)

Phonics and whole-language

b)

Behaviorism and teacher-centered

c)

Constructivism and social learning

d)

Whole-word and whole-language

8.

When learning to read, the awareness of the fact that some letter(s) may sound differently in different words is known as:

a)

Narrative skills

b)

Phonemic awareness

c)

Automaticity

d)

Decoding

9.

Early literacy development is contingent on understanding all of the following except:

a)

Concept of print

b)

Phonemic awareness

c)

Self-regulation

d)

Vocabulary

10.

One way of teaching early literacy skills includes summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting (Palincsar & Brown, 1984). This method was called:

a)

Reciprocal teaching

b)

Constructivist teaching

c)

Rote teaching

d)

Collaborative teaching

11.

According to Newcombe et al. (2009), this subject focuses more on understanding the process of developing knowledge rather than on content:

a)

Math

b)

Social Studies

c)

Literacy and language

d)

Science

12.

This is the ability to extend what has been learned to new contexts (Bransford et al., 2000):

a)

Expertise

b)

Transfer

c)

Working memory

d)

Performance

13.

Bjork and Bjork (2010) distinguish between learning and performance. The authors described several strategies (e.g., interleaved practice) to enhance long-term learning. Collectively, these strategies were called:

a)

Blocking

b)

Storage cues

c)

Desirable difficulties

d)

Testing effects

14.

Students with math anxiety often report using minimally effective study strategies (e.g., re-reading notes, looking over problems). What makes these strategies ineffective?

a)

They're solving new, but similar problems.

b)

They're not spaced out enough.

c)

You need sleep in order for them to be effective.

d)

They don't support encoding processes.

15.

Kohlberg (1975) delineated three stages of moral development (i.e., preconventional, conventional, and postconventional). The ability to advance to new stages is contingent on:

a)

Development of logical reasoning

b)

Development of phonological awareness

c)

The transfer of learned knowledge

d)

The level of one's IQ

16.

A method of teaching centered around the idea that “knowing that you don’t know something” is still valuable. There is an emphasis on asking questions not getting answers:

a)

Constructivist approach

b)

Socratic method

c)

Critical thinking

d)

Behaviorism

17.

This educational scholar wanted to focus on the “whole child” in schools and promoted learning by doing:

a)

Lawrence Kohlberg

b)

George Polya

c)

John Dewey

d)

Jean Piaget

18.

Which method of note-taking during class was associated with improved test performance when tested on ideas?

a)

Typing notes

b)

Handwriting notes

c)

Verbatim notes

d)

Audio-recording notes

19.

In lecture, Dr. Cortina discussed brain development. One thing important to brain development is the elimination of synaptic connections to increase efficiency. This is called:

a)

Synaptic pruning

b)

Synaptic density

c)

De-lateralization

d)

Cognitive aging

20.

Which of the following is the best way to practice retrieval?

a)

Studying the material

b)

Testing oneself on the material

c)

Rereading the material

d)

Alternating between studying and testing