WorksheetsEducational Psychology Final
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 25mins
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."
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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
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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.
Melanie had to take away a DOJO point from Inah because she got mad and threw a chair when she didn't win the game. Which view of learning and motivation is Melanie using?
Cognitive Constructivist View
Social Constructivist View
Behavioral View
Schema Theory
Why are behavioral methods criticized?
Students readily repeat behaviors that are ignored.
Teachers usually use reinforcement to recognize appropriate behavior.
Teachers typically try to teach students to be more self-managing.
Reinforcement and punishment are often used irresponsibly
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Eager to see his final grades for the semester, Wilson accesses his school’s secure Web site almost without thinking about the steps he’s taking to log in. What kind of implicit memory is he using?
procedural
episodic
semantic
classical conditioning
When Chelsea was four, she went to Disney World and saw Mickey Mouse for the first time. She recalls the event and still remembers every detail as though it happened yesterday. What kind of memory is Chelsea recalling?
flashbulb
procedural
mnemonic
semantic
When a student continues to misbehave after a teacher implements Tier 2 behavioral interventions, what is the next step in the RTI process?
The teacher shares behavioral documentation with the RTI team, and if a Tier 3 intervention is required, a Behavioral Intervention Plan might be recommended.
Revert to Tier 1 interventions.
The RTI process does not include behavioral interventions.
Refer the students to a doctor so medicine can be prescribed.
Which of the following terms are examples of "domain specific" vocabulary?
theme, allusion, idiom
fraction, equation, least common multiple
photosynthesis, respiration, nucleus
all of these terms are domain specific
Teachers must work hard to get and hold students' attention because a bit of information typically only stays on the "workbench" of working memory for
one nanosecond
three hours
20 seconds
none of these answers
Why do we recommend teachers use pictures to illustrate the concepts they are describing in their lectures or mini-lessons?
Learning is more effective when the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad are both activated.
Education professors are inherently artistic.
Without pictures, none of the students will retain the information.
Long term memories can only be stored as images.
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Before teachers start presenting either verbal or visual information, they must always be sure they have
successfully bribed the students' with candy
effectively gained their students' attention
threatened the students with punishment
invited parents to watch them teach
HOMES is a _____________device for learning the Great Lakes. (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior).
episodic memory
procedural memory
mnemonic memory
flashbulb memory
If we play Jeopardy to help us "find" information in our long term memories, we are engaged in
imagery
elaboration
retrieval practice
reciprocol teaching
Mr. Hester uses cooperative group activities every week in his middle school language arts classes. He believes that the social interactions involved in such activities shape students’ learning. Which of the following theorists most likely influenced Mr. Hester’s thinking?
information processing theorists and views of learning
Vygotsky's Social Constructivist view of learning
Piaget's Individual Constructivist view of learning
B.F. Skinner's Behavioral view of learning
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Which of the following scenarios provides the best example of the social constructivist view of learning?
Mr. Tindal gives the students additional homework questions for extra credit when he covers complex new concepts in science.
Ms. Fowler writes the assignments on the board and has seat work ready for students when they arrive each morning.
Mr. Franks rewards his students with extra points when they complete their spelling assignments and make a perfect score on the test.
Mrs. Kim’s math center has containers with colored beads, building blocks, and play money for children to use when they solve tasks together.
The principal held a meeting in which he reminded teachers to create learning environments that represent constructivist perspectives. Which of the following environments is LEAST likely to meet the principal’s expectations?
One teacher created a simulation in which students carry out tasks that would be performed on a space station.
One teacher sets aside a time every day for students to suggest ways they might take something they learned at school and use it away from school.
One teacher provides a checklist format for students to keep track of their progress and take responsibility for turning in assignments on time.
One teacher puts his notes on PowerPoint and lectures from them to help students take precise notes that capture the content without misunderstandings.
When students conduct research and consult experts to solve a real world problem, what kind of instruction is a teacher using?
Teacher Centered Instruction
Sage on the Stage Instruction
Problem Based Learning
Explicit Instruction
After reading, one student pretends to be the teacher and asks the other three to summarize the passage. Next, the students generate questions to ask one another about the main idea. Then they clarify anything that was confusing and make predictions about what they will learn in the next section of the text. What procedure are these students using?
Reciprocal Questioning
Problem Based Learning
Project Based Learning
Inquiry Based Learning
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Triadic reciprocal causality identifies which three kinds of influences that work together to describe behavior?
beliefs, expectations, and attitudes
beliefs, cognitive abilities, and knowledge
personal, environmental, and behavioral
consequences of actions, models, and resources
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Mitchell stopped talking in the hallway after seeing two students lose their recess for being too loud. What element of observational learning is illustrated by him stopping this behavior?
productive performance
vicarious learning
self-reinforcement
retention
Madison has a calculus student named Melanie who didn't do well on the last test. Madison hears Melanie say she doubts she'll be able to pass the next test too. Melanie's belief that she can't do calculus is representative of her:
low self-efficacy
low self-esteem
anxiety discorder
lack of self-regulation
Which of the following students is most likely to have the highest motivation to achieve?
a student who scores well but doesn't care about the information
a student who is under pressure from her parents to perform well
a student who has a high sense of self-efficacy for a particular skill
a student who relies on his peers to cover up his struggles
Which perspective views the teacher’s role as one of model, motivator, and facilitator of learning as well as model of self-regulated learning?
behavioral
cognitive
constructivist
social cognitive
Which of the following is potentially an example of intrinsic motivation?
Alyssia reads whenever she has a spare moment because she is passionate about historical fiction.
Kylee studies to earn an A on the test.
Emma gets paid for her good grades.
Jacob's nephews do the dishes every night because he pays them.
If you were willing to do your homework for a sticker, you are probably proving the ________view of motivation works for you.
Social constructivist
Cognitive view
Behavioral view
Individual constructivist
Based on personal attributions of their success or failure, which student is most likely to be motivated to study harder for the next test?
a student that realizes her failure on the first test was due to lack of preparation
a student that says he's just too dumb to understand the content
a student who thinks he passed because he was lucky enough to get the easy version of the test
a student who feels like they are just good at a subject because they were born that way
A teacher that praises a students' progress instead of just marking answers right or wrong is
encouraging a fixed mindset
encouraging a growth mindset
showing that he believes intelligences is innate
showing he views intelligence as stable
When we teach in the "magic middle," we are adhering to Vygotsky's
Zone of Regulation
Zone of Persistent Dichotomy
Zone of Perpetual Learning
Zone of Proximal Development
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If I tell you I am proud of you for "changing your brain" because you. have learned so much this semester. What am I referring to?
the plasticity of the brain
the fixed state of the brain
the amygdala
the brain stem's ability to learn
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Why should we take deep breaths when we get nervous?
It gets pure oxygen to every part of our body.
We think better when we hold our breath.
It cools down our amygdala so we can think.
Our brain stem requires excess oxygen when we get nervous.
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Taking time to investigate students' _____________allows teachers to celebrate the unique experiences students bring to the classroom.
procedural memories
emotional triggers
funds of knowledge
mindsets
If you want to motivate your students without bribing them with treats, you are encouraging which type of motivation.
locus of control
relatedness
extrinsic
intrinsic
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Which of the following best demonstrates why educators should understand Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Parenting styles determine success.
Emotional growth impacts cooperation with peers.
Need deficiencies can impact academic success.
Stages of development impact success in certain subjects.
Which of the following is true regarding extrinsic motivation?
Extrinsic motivation should be avoided at all costs.
Extrinsic motivation is more desirable than intrinsic motivation.
Extrinsic motivation is sometimes necessary to initially encourage students.
Extrinsic motivation does not affect grades.
When we play games to review material and I hand out treats to the winners, I am modeling instruction that most closely aligns with the _______________.
Behavioral View of Learning
Cognitive View of Learning
Constructivist View of Learning
Social Cognitive View of Learning
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Two groups allowed us to build our own knowledge, and they, as teachers, provided help as "guides on the side." Their view of learning was clearly
Behavioral
Cognitive
Constructivist
Social Cognitive
When modeling, a teacher shows a basic tenet of Albert Bandura's
Behavioral Analysis Theory
Situated Theory
Individual Constructivist Theory
Social Cognitive Theory
Collaborative learning through cooperative learning structures most closely aligns with the
information processing view of learning
individual constructivist view of learning
cognitive view of learning
social constructivist view of learning
The iceberg model of culture contends that
we should ignore our students' backgrounds
we should focus more on basic skills
we should only address what we see
we should move beyond just discussing the 5 F's of culture (food, festivals, famous people, etc)
The _____________________is the amount of mental resources, mostly working memory, required to perform a particular task.
schematic limitation
cognitive load
phonological loop
visuospatial sketchpad
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Elaboration
all of these answers
deepens understanding
adds meaning by connecting information to already existing knowledge
improves recall later
