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WorksheetsQUIZ EDU PSYC
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which of the following is more scientific?
systematic observation
personal experience
one person’s opinion
a book written by a journalist
Mr. Harris wants to know how much time his students spend off-task each day. To determine this, he carefully watches the students in class, keeping a record of off-task behavior. Which research approach has he used?
case study
experiment
laboratory experiment
naturalistic observation
When a teacher changes the level of support provided to a student according to the student's performance level, the teacher is engaging the student in which of the following strategies?
Tutoring
Scaffolding
Apprenticeship
Cooperative learning
Which of the following is NOT a constructivist approach to teaching social studies?
Peer collaboration
Critical thinking about values
Emphasis on using multiple sources of information
Traditional manner of using a single textbook and complementing lectures with question-and-answer discussions
Mr. Azman believes that all children are entitled to an education and that this education should focus on the whole child. His views are most consistent with those of ____________.
Benjamin Bloom
John Dewey
B. F. Skinner
E. L. Thorndike
Jean Piaget emphasized ______________; Lev Vygotsky emphasized _______________.
situated cognition; constructivism
constructivism; social constructivism
social constructivism; constructivism
situated cognition; social constructivism
Which of the following activities provides the greatest opportunity for children to construct knowledge by social interaction?
Brainstorming ideas for a skit.
Reading a story about a famous politician.
Writing a poem to express a social concern.
Drawing a picture of a friend or family member.
Mr. Ezzad is giving a talk on development to a parent-teacher organization. In his talk, which of the following is he most likely to describe as not being an example of development?
pubertal change
improvement in memory
change in friendship
an inherited tendency to be shy
Ms. Halley teaches third grade. Which period of development is likely to be of most interest to her?
infancy
early childhood
middle childhood and late childhood
adolescence
Piaget argued that children progress through a series of cognitive development stages. In contrast, Skinner stressed that individuals simply learn more as time goes on. Which developmental issue is highlighted in their disagreement?
Continuity and discontinuity
Early and later experience
Nature and nurture
Biological and socioemotional development
