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PSYCHOLOGY OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT EXAM
TEST BANK WITH ACTUAL CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED DETAILED
RATIONALES ANSWERS (NEWEST) 2024 ALREADY
GRADED A+
What is the concept of metacognition?
Students being determined to work harder
Students thinking about their own thinking
Students planning to work more efficiently
Students having increased faith in their ability to learn
Students thinking about their own thinking
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is important for teachers to understand. Describe how Maslow's hierarchy
of needs impacts a child's educational experience.
Maslow's theory postulated that all humans have multiple needs. All of these needs must be satisfied
before students are able to focus their attention toward maximizing their potential. Students who are
hungry, tired, or feel unsafe cannot focus on their schoolwork.
A teacher asks students, "Who was the first person to walk on the moon?"
Which level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is the teacher asking students to use?
Understanding
Creating
Analyzing
Remembering
Remembering
True or False
A teacher who wants to measure the progress of the entire class as a whole should use a norm-
referenced assessment.
False
True or False
Before beginning a lesson on the three branches of government, a social studies teacher wants to find
out how much his or her students already know about the subject.
This teacher should administer a diagnostic assessment.
,True
A music teacher wants to assess the progress each student in the band has made from the beginning to
the end of the year. As part of this assessment, he records each band member playing an individual
piece of music at the end of every month.
Which kind of assessment strategy would be suitable, given the teacher's goal? Select all that apply.
Performance or authentic assessment
Objective assessment
Standardized assessment
Criterion-referenced assessment
Criterion-referenced assessment
Performance or authentic assessment
Which theory of learning most closely aligns with cooperative and collaborative learning?
Constructivism
Which theory of learning most closely aligns with direct instruction?
Behaviorism
In Ms. Martinez's 10th-grade science class, the students participated in a round-robin discussion that
focused on whether astronauts will successfully land on Mars. During the discussion, Ms. Martinez made
sure that each student had a chance to participate in the conversation and share their opinion with the
group. According to Maslow, ensuring students were able to participate and share their opinions would
fulfill which need?
love and belonging
A teacher makes sure to say something positive to each student after they give their speech in class.
Which need is the teacher trying to meet?
love and belonging
Children at this age need frequent opportunities for physical activity, like a short walk to collect leaves
to use in an art lesson or a "music and march" time to begin the day.
preschool
You have noticed that a few of your preschool children do not seem to be engaged with the outdoor
play equipment. What can you do to make the outdoor environment more appealing?
Place jump ropes outside.
Have a monkey bar set outside.
Support children as they create their own games.
Add bicycles to the toys outside.
Support children as they create their own games.
,Thomas was saddened to see a big letter F on his latest math test. Maslow would say Thomas is most
likely deficient in which need?
esteem
Mr. Jackson's 5th grade Language Arts students created posters for a book they had read in class. After
the posters were finished, Mr. Jackson hung the posters on the wall for all of the class to see. According
to Maslow, hanging the posters on the wall would fulfill which need?
esteem
At which stage do children make slow and steady height and weight gains?
middle childhood
Mrs. Major jokes with her students that since they've all grown by at least 3 to 5 inches since the start of
the school year they seem like different students. Given that her students are growing at an average
rate of 4 inches a year, Mrs. Major's students are most likely in which age group?
adolescence
LaTonya is learning to sew and is becoming quite good at it. LaTonya is most likely working at which
stage of physical development?
middle childhood
A student has become more concerned about her body image and her relationships with her peers. The
child is most likely in which stage of physical development?
adolescence
A 4th grade teacher wants to give her students a science lesson that will help to develop their thinking
skills. What activity would be most appropriate for students at this age, according to Piaget's theory of
cognitive development?
Have students work on memorizing science vocabulary words by working in pairs with flashcards.
Provide a short lesson on a science concept, and then have students create a concept map to show the
connections between concepts.
Demonstrate a science experiment that each student will complete, and then have them work on it,
asking them to identify questions they may have.
Assign students to groups to work on different science experiments and have them create a hypothesis
for what they think the result will be.
Demonstrate a science experiment that each student will complete, and then have them work on it,
asking them to identify questions they may have.
You walk into a classroom and observe the teacher moving children into heterogeneous groups of 4 or 5
to learn about different types of clouds. Whose theory is the teacher following?
Vygotsky
, Organized patterns of actions and thoughts, such as kicking a football or realizing that there are many
different types of footballs, or connecting memories of one family vacations with other family vacations,
are defined by Piaget as
schema
Su Ahn smiles a lot, responds to her own name, recognizes herself in the mirror, and copies the actions
of others. What age range is she likely in?
Birth-2years old
When you smile and talk back to your child in excitement after they make a babbling noise that sounds
like Mama or Dada, you are using the concept of ____________ from Skinner's language development
theory.
Reinforcement
A mother says to her three year old, "Oh no! You fell down. Did you get an owie?" Vygotsky would
categorize this mother's conversation with her child as
Working in the child's zone of proximal development
By age 7, children can be expected to:
Make jokes or tease others
At what age can a child be expected to ask and answer simple questions and use pronouns, plurals, and
rhyming words?
3-4 yrs
Children between the ages of 3 to 6 years of age can be expected to:
Tell a story
At what age can children be expected to understand words of order and time and to use sentences that
have more than one action word?
4-5 yrs
At what age can a child be expected to point to body parts and to point to or name pictures in books?
1-2 yrs
Ms. Weils notices one of her students is having issues with a memory deficit. When reading, the student
often forgets what happened at the beginning of a paragraph and only remembers the end. In addition,
while completing math problems, the student tends to forget the second and third steps of the
sequence while working on the first step. What aspect of memory is likely affecting this student's
learning and performance?
working memory
PSYCHOLOGY OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT EXAM
TEST BANK WITH ACTUAL CORRECT
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED DETAILED
RATIONALES ANSWERS (NEWEST) 2024 ALREADY
GRADED A+
What is the concept of metacognition?
Students being determined to work harder
Students thinking about their own thinking
Students planning to work more efficiently
Students having increased faith in their ability to learn
Students thinking about their own thinking
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is important for teachers to understand. Describe how Maslow's hierarchy
of needs impacts a child's educational experience.
Maslow's theory postulated that all humans have multiple needs. All of these needs must be satisfied
before students are able to focus their attention toward maximizing their potential. Students who are
hungry, tired, or feel unsafe cannot focus on their schoolwork.
A teacher asks students, "Who was the first person to walk on the moon?"
Which level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is the teacher asking students to use?
Understanding
Creating
Analyzing
Remembering
Remembering
True or False
A teacher who wants to measure the progress of the entire class as a whole should use a norm-
referenced assessment.
False
True or False
Before beginning a lesson on the three branches of government, a social studies teacher wants to find
out how much his or her students already know about the subject.
This teacher should administer a diagnostic assessment.
,True
A music teacher wants to assess the progress each student in the band has made from the beginning to
the end of the year. As part of this assessment, he records each band member playing an individual
piece of music at the end of every month.
Which kind of assessment strategy would be suitable, given the teacher's goal? Select all that apply.
Performance or authentic assessment
Objective assessment
Standardized assessment
Criterion-referenced assessment
Criterion-referenced assessment
Performance or authentic assessment
Which theory of learning most closely aligns with cooperative and collaborative learning?
Constructivism
Which theory of learning most closely aligns with direct instruction?
Behaviorism
In Ms. Martinez's 10th-grade science class, the students participated in a round-robin discussion that
focused on whether astronauts will successfully land on Mars. During the discussion, Ms. Martinez made
sure that each student had a chance to participate in the conversation and share their opinion with the
group. According to Maslow, ensuring students were able to participate and share their opinions would
fulfill which need?
love and belonging
A teacher makes sure to say something positive to each student after they give their speech in class.
Which need is the teacher trying to meet?
love and belonging
Children at this age need frequent opportunities for physical activity, like a short walk to collect leaves
to use in an art lesson or a "music and march" time to begin the day.
preschool
You have noticed that a few of your preschool children do not seem to be engaged with the outdoor
play equipment. What can you do to make the outdoor environment more appealing?
Place jump ropes outside.
Have a monkey bar set outside.
Support children as they create their own games.
Add bicycles to the toys outside.
Support children as they create their own games.
,Thomas was saddened to see a big letter F on his latest math test. Maslow would say Thomas is most
likely deficient in which need?
esteem
Mr. Jackson's 5th grade Language Arts students created posters for a book they had read in class. After
the posters were finished, Mr. Jackson hung the posters on the wall for all of the class to see. According
to Maslow, hanging the posters on the wall would fulfill which need?
esteem
At which stage do children make slow and steady height and weight gains?
middle childhood
Mrs. Major jokes with her students that since they've all grown by at least 3 to 5 inches since the start of
the school year they seem like different students. Given that her students are growing at an average
rate of 4 inches a year, Mrs. Major's students are most likely in which age group?
adolescence
LaTonya is learning to sew and is becoming quite good at it. LaTonya is most likely working at which
stage of physical development?
middle childhood
A student has become more concerned about her body image and her relationships with her peers. The
child is most likely in which stage of physical development?
adolescence
A 4th grade teacher wants to give her students a science lesson that will help to develop their thinking
skills. What activity would be most appropriate for students at this age, according to Piaget's theory of
cognitive development?
Have students work on memorizing science vocabulary words by working in pairs with flashcards.
Provide a short lesson on a science concept, and then have students create a concept map to show the
connections between concepts.
Demonstrate a science experiment that each student will complete, and then have them work on it,
asking them to identify questions they may have.
Assign students to groups to work on different science experiments and have them create a hypothesis
for what they think the result will be.
Demonstrate a science experiment that each student will complete, and then have them work on it,
asking them to identify questions they may have.
You walk into a classroom and observe the teacher moving children into heterogeneous groups of 4 or 5
to learn about different types of clouds. Whose theory is the teacher following?
Vygotsky
, Organized patterns of actions and thoughts, such as kicking a football or realizing that there are many
different types of footballs, or connecting memories of one family vacations with other family vacations,
are defined by Piaget as
schema
Su Ahn smiles a lot, responds to her own name, recognizes herself in the mirror, and copies the actions
of others. What age range is she likely in?
Birth-2years old
When you smile and talk back to your child in excitement after they make a babbling noise that sounds
like Mama or Dada, you are using the concept of ____________ from Skinner's language development
theory.
Reinforcement
A mother says to her three year old, "Oh no! You fell down. Did you get an owie?" Vygotsky would
categorize this mother's conversation with her child as
Working in the child's zone of proximal development
By age 7, children can be expected to:
Make jokes or tease others
At what age can a child be expected to ask and answer simple questions and use pronouns, plurals, and
rhyming words?
3-4 yrs
Children between the ages of 3 to 6 years of age can be expected to:
Tell a story
At what age can children be expected to understand words of order and time and to use sentences that
have more than one action word?
4-5 yrs
At what age can a child be expected to point to body parts and to point to or name pictures in books?
1-2 yrs
Ms. Weils notices one of her students is having issues with a memory deficit. When reading, the student
often forgets what happened at the beginning of a paragraph and only remembers the end. In addition,
while completing math problems, the student tends to forget the second and third steps of the
sequence while working on the first step. What aspect of memory is likely affecting this student's
learning and performance?
working memory
