PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR PSYCHOLOGY WGU EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
When the students in Ms. Anne's class get 100% on their spelling homework during the week and they
don't have to take their spelling test on Friday. This is an example of: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Negative
Reinforcement
Ms. Thrace wants her students to know how and when to use certain learning strategies, so she
specifically teaches these learning strategies and encourages her students to talk their way through new
situations and problems. Which instructional strategy is being implemented? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Self-Regulated Learning
Mr. Howard has an engineering student who failed his first three quizzes in the course. When going over
the study guide for the upcoming exam, Mr. Howard noticed that the student did not have his study
guide completed. Mr. Howard asked the student about this situation and the student replied, "What's
the point? I'm going to fail anyway." What can Mrs. Howard do to help this student overcome his
learned helplessness? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Set consistent expectations and follow through
Mr. Mufasa wanted his students to memorize the 50 states and their respective capitals. Which learning
strategy should he encourage his students to use? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Paired-association learning
If you walk into a classroom and see students working cooperatively to help each other learn, who
theory is being implemented? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vygotsky
Ms. Ariel believes in Slavin's QAIT Model for effective instruction. Which element is not part of this
model? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Administrative support
According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model of Information Processing, all information first enters the: -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sensory register
Monica is starting to listen to the advice of her peers more than that of her parents. She is also starting
to question her future educational and occupational choices. According to Erikson, in which stage is
Monica? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identity Vs. Role Confusion
, Ms. Minnie likes to involve the families of her students in her classroom. She informs families about
school programs and student progress, involves families with homework and goal setting, and includes
families in school committees and councils. Which three of Epstein's six types of involvement is Ms.
Minnie practicing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Decision Making, Communication, and Learning at Home
If you walk into a classroom and see a teacher giving students work that is just a little harder than what
they can currently accomplish on their own, whose theory is being implemented? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Vygotsky
Ms. Amy distributes her students' graded biology tests. She overhears a student say to another student
that he failed the test because the test was just too hard. What is true about this student's attributions?
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅They are external and stable
Mr. Louie's students are studying the rainforest. He has developed several ways to assess the students.
The students can choose to write a poem about the animals of the rainforest, create a three-
dimensional diorama of the rainforest, choreograph an interpretative dance about the lives of the
people who live in the rainforest, create graphs to illustrate the rate of deforestation happening in the
rainforest, or write a song about the different layers of the rainforest. Which of Gardner's multiple
intelligences will the poem satisfy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Linguistic
You walk into a classroom and watch a student bounce a basketball, bounce a tennis ball, and bounce a
ping-pong ball. The student then tries to bounce a baseball and is perplexed when it does not bounce
like the other balls did. Whose theory are you witnessing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Piaget
Ms. Elsa needed to get her students' attention. She turned the lights off in her classroom and the
students immediately got quiet. She praised the students for their good behavior. In this scenario, what
is an example of classical conditioning? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The students getting quiet when Ms.
Elsa turned off the lights.
Ms. Bernadette is having a conversation about goal setting with her microbiology students. One of her
student's says that his goal is to get an, "A" in her course. What is true about this student's goal? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅It is a performance goal.
Mr. Raj wants uses a variety of presentation techniques when teaching his astrophysics class. He
provides examples to show students how the material will be useful to them and often introduces
puzzling situations to help maintain his students' curiosity. He helps his students set some of their goals
ANSWERS
When the students in Ms. Anne's class get 100% on their spelling homework during the week and they
don't have to take their spelling test on Friday. This is an example of: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Negative
Reinforcement
Ms. Thrace wants her students to know how and when to use certain learning strategies, so she
specifically teaches these learning strategies and encourages her students to talk their way through new
situations and problems. Which instructional strategy is being implemented? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Self-Regulated Learning
Mr. Howard has an engineering student who failed his first three quizzes in the course. When going over
the study guide for the upcoming exam, Mr. Howard noticed that the student did not have his study
guide completed. Mr. Howard asked the student about this situation and the student replied, "What's
the point? I'm going to fail anyway." What can Mrs. Howard do to help this student overcome his
learned helplessness? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Set consistent expectations and follow through
Mr. Mufasa wanted his students to memorize the 50 states and their respective capitals. Which learning
strategy should he encourage his students to use? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Paired-association learning
If you walk into a classroom and see students working cooperatively to help each other learn, who
theory is being implemented? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Vygotsky
Ms. Ariel believes in Slavin's QAIT Model for effective instruction. Which element is not part of this
model? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Administrative support
According to the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model of Information Processing, all information first enters the: -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sensory register
Monica is starting to listen to the advice of her peers more than that of her parents. She is also starting
to question her future educational and occupational choices. According to Erikson, in which stage is
Monica? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Identity Vs. Role Confusion
, Ms. Minnie likes to involve the families of her students in her classroom. She informs families about
school programs and student progress, involves families with homework and goal setting, and includes
families in school committees and councils. Which three of Epstein's six types of involvement is Ms.
Minnie practicing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Decision Making, Communication, and Learning at Home
If you walk into a classroom and see a teacher giving students work that is just a little harder than what
they can currently accomplish on their own, whose theory is being implemented? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Vygotsky
Ms. Amy distributes her students' graded biology tests. She overhears a student say to another student
that he failed the test because the test was just too hard. What is true about this student's attributions?
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅They are external and stable
Mr. Louie's students are studying the rainforest. He has developed several ways to assess the students.
The students can choose to write a poem about the animals of the rainforest, create a three-
dimensional diorama of the rainforest, choreograph an interpretative dance about the lives of the
people who live in the rainforest, create graphs to illustrate the rate of deforestation happening in the
rainforest, or write a song about the different layers of the rainforest. Which of Gardner's multiple
intelligences will the poem satisfy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Linguistic
You walk into a classroom and watch a student bounce a basketball, bounce a tennis ball, and bounce a
ping-pong ball. The student then tries to bounce a baseball and is perplexed when it does not bounce
like the other balls did. Whose theory are you witnessing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Piaget
Ms. Elsa needed to get her students' attention. She turned the lights off in her classroom and the
students immediately got quiet. She praised the students for their good behavior. In this scenario, what
is an example of classical conditioning? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The students getting quiet when Ms.
Elsa turned off the lights.
Ms. Bernadette is having a conversation about goal setting with her microbiology students. One of her
student's says that his goal is to get an, "A" in her course. What is true about this student's goal? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅It is a performance goal.
Mr. Raj wants uses a variety of presentation techniques when teaching his astrophysics class. He
provides examples to show students how the material will be useful to them and often introduces
puzzling situations to help maintain his students' curiosity. He helps his students set some of their goals
