LET REVIEWER: PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
Educational Psychology Practice Test #1
1. Which of the following is characteristic of a positive
correlation?
A. amount of food consumed and your
weight
B. amount of partying you do and your GPA
C. amount of clothes worn and the temperature of the air
D. amount of exercise you do and the size of your clothes
2. Expert teachers are very concerned about
A. being reflective problem solvers
B. the specific techniques teachers apply
C. maintaining classroom discipline
D. adhering to lesson plans
3. The Carnegie Foundation (1987) reported that teachers
felt most involved in making
decisions about
A. choosing textbooks
B. shaping the curriculum
C. setting standards for student behavior
D. designing staff development programs
4. Research suggests that reasons for lack of teacher
participation in school wide
decisions stem from
A. teachers have little time or energy for these kinds of
activities outside of the
classroom
B. teachers not wanting to step on administrator's toes
C. the fact that restructuring adds responsibilities to
teachers for which they are
not compensated
D. all of the above
5. Educational Psychology is distinct from other branches of
psychology because
A. its findings are based upon research
B. expert teachers are the researchers versus psychologists
C. understanding and improving
education is its primary goal
D. most educational principles have their foundation in
common sense notions
regarding teaching
6. The change that occurs in human beings between conception
and death is referred to as:
A. maturation
B. development
C. growth
D. cognitive development
7. Which of the following is FALSE regarding a general
principle of development ?
A. Development occurs at different rates.
B. Development is rapid and
dramatic.
C. Development takes place in an orderly sequence.
D. Development takes place gradually.
8. According to Piaget's view, the child's ______________
influences his or her
cognitive development as the child tests, explores and
observes the environment.
A. maturation.
B. activity and social transmission
C. equilibration
D. all of the above
9. As a biologist, Piaget looked for patterns in the human
species, and concluded that
humans inherit the invariant functions of:
A. lateralization and plasticity
B. maturation and activity
C. organization and adaptation
D. equilibrium and disequilibrum
10. If you are puzzled about a situation and don't
understand why present attempts to solve the problem aren't working, Piaget would
say you are in a state of:
A. adaptation
B. accommodation
C. equilibration
D. disequilibrium
11. The ability to use language and think symbolically, is a
characteristic of _________
and is referred to as _______________.
A. sensorimotor development; goal directed action
B. preoperational development; the
semiotic function
C. preoperational development; collective monologue
D. concrete operational development; classification
12. The approach called cognitive self-instruction is
consistent with Vygotsky's view of:
A. sociocultural theory
B. scaffolding
C. the Zone of Proximal Development
D. private speech
13. You have taught a new math skill to your class, and find
that some students have
caught on quickly, while others are still having difficulty
applying the skill. Based on
Vygotsky's principles of assisted learning / zone of
proximal development, you should
A. give all students more practice problems
B. pair students for more practice, pairing
students who have mastered the skill
with those who have not.
C. give all students for more instruction in the performance
of math skill.
D. go on to the next skill and put students in cooperative
learning groups.
14. Normal language development patterns would anticipate
that most children have
mastered the basics of pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary
in their native language by ages ______.
A. 3-4
B. 4-5
C. 5-6
D. 6-7
15. In order to learn and understand rules of grammar and
syntax (word order), children need to have developed:
A. a large vocabulary
B. a cultural tool kit
C. literacy
D. metalinguistic awareness
16. Nerve cells that store and transfer information by releasing
chemicals that jump across the synapses from one fiber to another fiber are
called
A. synapses
B. neurons
C. myelin
D. reticular formation.
17. An environmental factor that is crucial to proper brain
development is
A. a diet rich in calcium
B. the introduction of music to the fetus in utero.
C. an adequate amount of stimulation
D. the mother's limited intake of drugs including alcohol
and caffeine
18. According to Erickson's psychosocial theory of
development
A. conflict resolution in the early
years sets the stage for accomplishments in later
stages
B. emotional changes follow different patterns in each
society
C. human intellectual development in contingent upon
successful conflict
resolution
D. each stage is independent of all other stages
19. Upon graduating from high school Alberto plans to
backpack across Europe. He wants to take some time to decide whether to go onto
college or to work the family farm with his father. According to James Marcia
this is called
A. identity foreclosure
B. identity achievement
C. identity diffusion
D. moratorium
20. According to research by Archer and Waterman (1990)
identity diffused individuals
A. trust their lives to fate
B. are more likely to abuse drugs
C. tend to go along with the crowd
D. all of the above
21. The structure of adolescent self-concept
A. results primarily from physical appearance
B. is strongly related to parental SES
C. is divided into English,
mathematical, and non-academic self-concept
D. is much higher than during the elementary school years
22. With respect to perceptions of their own abilities
A. elementary boys see themselves as more capable than girls
B. elementary boys and girls have
comparable perceptions
C. African-American males are more confident than
African-American females
D. continuing through high school, girls gradually increase
their perceptions of
their abilities relative to boys
23. Collective self-esteem is best defined as
A. self-esteem derived from acceptance by one's peer group
B. a false sense of self-esteem gained by membership with a
deviant culture i.e.,
gang or drug culture
C. the sense of the value of the
group such as an ethnic group to which you
belong
D. a composite self-esteem which is the sum total of all of
one's perceived
abilities
24. According to Piaget, moral realism is the
A. realistic perspective and understanding that others have
different feelings and
experiences
B. stage of development wherein
children see rules as absolute
C. stage of development wherein children realize that people
make rules and
people can change them
D. thinking process involved in judgments about questions of
right and wrong
25. With respect to cheating, research supports the notion
that
A. students will cheat if parental
pressure for grades is high
B. students who cheat are more likely to lie and steal
C. college-age females are more likely to lie and steal
D. students in the arts and humanities are more likely to
cheat than science and
engineering students
26. Ten percent of children in Europe and the US can be
classified as chronic victims.
Which of the following statements describe these students?
A. These victims generally blame outside circumstances for
their situation.
B. Chronic victims are more likely
to commit suicide as young adults.
C. They believe that if they can improve their character
flaws, they will be able to
gradually improve their situations.
D. When attacked, chronic victims generally defend
themselves with highly
emotional hot-tempered out bursts.
27. Which of the following is an effect of divorce within
the US?
A. the number of father headed-households is on the decline
B. the custodial parent may have to
move to a less expensive home
C. 75% of female single-parent families live in poverty
D. the first two months after divorce is the most difficult
adjustment period for
children
28. The amount of teenage girls who become pregnant every year
in the US. is estimated to be more than
A. 100,000
B. 200,000
C. 500,000
D. 1,000,000 ???
29. According to the National Center for Education
Statistics. What percentage of high
school seniors report some experience with alcohol ?
A. 23%
B. 54%
C. 75%
D. 92%
30. Jennifer wants to help out by washing the dishes and
surprise her mom. When she breaks her mother's glass baking dish her mother
yells at her. According to Erickson this may result in
A. inferiority
B. shame and doubt
C. guilt
D. mistrust
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The above practice test is copied from;
Answers:
1.) A
2.) A
3.) A
4.) D
5.) C
6.) B
7.) B
8.) D
9.) C
10.) D
11.) B
12.) D
13.) B
14.) C
15.) D
16.) B
17.) C
18.) A
19.) D
20.) D
21.) C
22.) B
23.) C
24.) B
25.) A
26.) B
27.) B
28.) D
29.) D
30.) A
