This Mock Exam provides extensive answer Key which can help to as a summary for
important key points. It was made based on key words in checklists.
Example of the answer:
Mock Exam: Educational Psychology/ Human Learning
Problem 1: Memory
1. Which of the factors does NOT affect attention?
a) Incongruity
b) Inconsistency
c) Size
d) Social cues
2. Which definition of cocktail party phenomenon is correct?
a) The cocktail party phenomenon is the ability to attentively engage in multiple conversations
or auditory stimuli in crowded social settings.
b) The cocktail party phenomenon is the selective attention mechanism that filters out
irrelevant background noise, allowing focused concentration on a specific conversation.
c) The cocktail party phenomenon is the effortless switching of attention between different
conversations or auditory inputs in noisy environments.
3. Central executive is a component of working memory. It’s function is:
a) Control and monitor the flow and use of information throughout the memory system
b) Retrieve the information related to the new sensory input
c) Distinguish between explicit and implicit knowledge
d) Manage the attention
, 4. Episodic buffer is:
a) Through repetition you can remember a small amount of auditory information
b) Allows manipulation and shor-term retention of visual material
c) “A place” where informationfrom multiple input modalities such as visual, auditory, also long
-term memory can interact and be integrated into an understanding of the situation
d) Certain amount of information that learners think about at the same time
5. Samantha is trying to remember her friend’s birthday, she is repeating the numbers in her mind
and thinking of her friend’s face, she also imagines summer, since her friend’s birthday is in July.
Samantha applied maintenance rehearsal using… ?
a) Episodic buffer
b) Visuospacial pad
c) Phonological loop
d) Visuospacial pad and phonological loop
6. Which of the following control processes affect the working memory?
a) Maintenance rehearsal: refers to the process of repeating or mentally rehearsing information
to keep it active in working memory
b) Organization: People try to organize information in the working memory so that they could
hold it for longer. E.g. chunking, attach meaning to digits.
c) Retrieval: How easily something is retrieved depends of how much information is stored
there. Retrieval from working memory can mean scanning all the contents exhaustively.
d) All 3 processes affect working memory.
Problem 2: Metacognition
1. Jack goes to every lecture and takes lots of notes, mostly just transcribing, and not organizing
them much. Often he lacks time to read them before the exam. What can be said about such
Jack’s practise?
a) Merely taking the notes has a positive effect on learning so he will still benefit from
it.
b) It is a waste of time since he never processed deeply that information
c) It did not help him to focus the attention on the class
d) It was not the waste of time ONLY if he reviewed them later
2. Which 3 conditions should be satisfied to ensure that students used the learning strategies?
a) Appropriate tasks, effort & efficacy, guidance
b) Motivation, appropriate tasks, metacognition
c) Appropriate tasks, valuing learning, effort & efficacy, have some prior knowledge
important key points. It was made based on key words in checklists.
Example of the answer:
Mock Exam: Educational Psychology/ Human Learning
Problem 1: Memory
1. Which of the factors does NOT affect attention?
a) Incongruity
b) Inconsistency
c) Size
d) Social cues
2. Which definition of cocktail party phenomenon is correct?
a) The cocktail party phenomenon is the ability to attentively engage in multiple conversations
or auditory stimuli in crowded social settings.
b) The cocktail party phenomenon is the selective attention mechanism that filters out
irrelevant background noise, allowing focused concentration on a specific conversation.
c) The cocktail party phenomenon is the effortless switching of attention between different
conversations or auditory inputs in noisy environments.
3. Central executive is a component of working memory. It’s function is:
a) Control and monitor the flow and use of information throughout the memory system
b) Retrieve the information related to the new sensory input
c) Distinguish between explicit and implicit knowledge
d) Manage the attention
, 4. Episodic buffer is:
a) Through repetition you can remember a small amount of auditory information
b) Allows manipulation and shor-term retention of visual material
c) “A place” where informationfrom multiple input modalities such as visual, auditory, also long
-term memory can interact and be integrated into an understanding of the situation
d) Certain amount of information that learners think about at the same time
5. Samantha is trying to remember her friend’s birthday, she is repeating the numbers in her mind
and thinking of her friend’s face, she also imagines summer, since her friend’s birthday is in July.
Samantha applied maintenance rehearsal using… ?
a) Episodic buffer
b) Visuospacial pad
c) Phonological loop
d) Visuospacial pad and phonological loop
6. Which of the following control processes affect the working memory?
a) Maintenance rehearsal: refers to the process of repeating or mentally rehearsing information
to keep it active in working memory
b) Organization: People try to organize information in the working memory so that they could
hold it for longer. E.g. chunking, attach meaning to digits.
c) Retrieval: How easily something is retrieved depends of how much information is stored
there. Retrieval from working memory can mean scanning all the contents exhaustively.
d) All 3 processes affect working memory.
Problem 2: Metacognition
1. Jack goes to every lecture and takes lots of notes, mostly just transcribing, and not organizing
them much. Often he lacks time to read them before the exam. What can be said about such
Jack’s practise?
a) Merely taking the notes has a positive effect on learning so he will still benefit from
it.
b) It is a waste of time since he never processed deeply that information
c) It did not help him to focus the attention on the class
d) It was not the waste of time ONLY if he reviewed them later
2. Which 3 conditions should be satisfied to ensure that students used the learning strategies?
a) Appropriate tasks, effort & efficacy, guidance
b) Motivation, appropriate tasks, metacognition
c) Appropriate tasks, valuing learning, effort & efficacy, have some prior knowledge
