Educational Psychology
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Educational Psychology
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1. The process of interpreting and attaching meaning to an experience is called
2. Stickers - teachers’ words of praise - and small gifts
3. A complex of neurological disabilities that inhibit symbol recognition and the orderly processing and assimilation of language is
4. The fact that a child in the pre-operational stage of development tends to focus on one perceptual aspect of an event to the exclusion of others demonstrates
5. Even though Tania was terrified of her male teacher last year - she entered her new classroom this year calm and unafraid - even though she had another male as a teacher. Tania appears to be demonstrating
6. Richard has a learning disability. His school provides individualized instruction in a resource room throughout most of the day but allows Richard to attend his third grade for afternoon activities - such as physical education - home economics and art. This is an example of
7. Teachers often need assessment that compares a student’s performance to a specific - well-defined content domain. If this is the case - they would employ
8. A behavior that is reinforced on a(n) _________ schedule of reinforcement is most resistant to extinction.
9. Mr. Collier - the fifth grade science teacher - feels that hair length is the element that influences science achievement. After completing one marking period - he cuts the hair of all his students and begins to keep records of their test scores in contrast to those obtained during the first marking period. Mr. Collier is attempting
10. A student who has memories of general facts and concepts would be said to have
11. The need to excel in learning tasks while balancing the need to avoid failure is
12. All students are listening to the teacher’s riveting lecture when suddenly a loud - sudden noise occurs in the back of the room. The students all startle and turn away from the teacher to look to the back of the room. The reaction is a result of the work of
13. Tom is employing assessment in his class to answer the following questions: "How well did my lesson go?" and "Did I reach my instructional objectives?". Tom is using assessment as a
14. What level of Bloom’s Taxonomy is illustrated by a student’s ability to identify the principal theme after reading a short story?
15. IQ - in the Stanford-Binet formulation - is found by
16. The fact that we may remember the items in the beginning of a list faster than those in the middle of the list may be explained by
17. In using Mager’s formula for writing an objective - which of the following would typically be included in the objective?
18. If an intelligence test truly measures intelligence - it could be said to have
19. A child listens to his mother say the word "dog" and tries to imitate the sound his mother makes. This would illustrate which of the following theories of language development?
20. When confronted with a little man with a mustache - Howard declared: "Look mom - a baby with a mustache!" Howard is illustrating
21. Sheila decided to cook dessert for Thanksgiving. She is a little nervous - so she rehearses what she should do first - then the next step - then the next step—all the way to the last step. Sheila is strengthening her
22. Joey continues to have difficulty with long division. Ms. Kowalski provides Joey with a series of division problems to perform and asks him to say aloud the steps he is trying to take to solve the problem. Ms. Kowalski appears to be using which form of assessment?
23. If a conditioned stimulus is presented in the absence of an unconditioned stimulus - ______ may occur.
24. Using a higher frequency behavior as a reinforcer for a less frequent behavior is an example of
25. A teacher who is sensitive about the nature of the posters she displays in her class and is concerned that the posters reflect all of her students’ experiences is adapting curriculum through attention to