EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY CH.1-7
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Educational psychology - Correct Answers -The discipline or field about learners,
learning, and teaching.
Pedagogy - Correct Answers -The study of teaching and learning with application to the
instructional process.
Intentional teachers - Correct Answers -Teachers who do things for a reason, on
purpose.
Pre-operational stage - Correct Answers -During this stage children are no longer
infants, and their language and concepts develop at incredible rates.
Prosocial behaviors - Correct Answers -Voluntary actions toward others such as caring,
sharing, comforting, and cooperation are referenced by these types of behaviors.
Solitary play - Correct Answers -Play that occurs alone, often with toys, and
independent of what other children are doing.
Teacher efficacy - Correct Answers -The degree to which teachers feel that their own
efforts determine the success of their students.
Theory - Correct Answers -Sets of principles and facts that attempt to explain some
phenomenon.
Law - Correct Answers -Individual principles that have been thoroughly tested.
Principle - Correct Answers -These explain relationships between factors.
Experiement - Correct Answers -A systematic procedure used to study the effects of a
treatment.
Internal validity - Correct Answers -The degree to which the results of a laboratory
experiment can be directly attributed to the treatment studied rather than other factors.
, Single-case experiment - Correct Answers -A type of research in which a single
participant's behavior may be observed over a period of time.
Correlational study - Correct Answers -A type of research that explores the degree to
which two variables are related.
Descriptive research - Correct Answers -A type of non-experimental study aimed at
systematically identifying and gathering detailed information about something.
Intentionality - Correct Answers -When teachers think about the outcomes they desire in
their lessons and how each decision made moves a student toward these objectives,
what are they demonstrating?
Development - Correct Answers -The descriptive term that refers to how and why
people grow, adapt, and change over their lifetimes.
Continuous theories of development - Correct Answers -A set of principles and laws that
suggests that, at a fairly early age, children are capable of thinking and acting like
adults, given the proper experience and education.
Discontinuous theories of development - Correct Answers -Theories that draw on inborn
factors more than environmental influences, in explaining the sequence of changes in
development.
Schemes - Correct Answers -The patterns of behavior or thinking that children and
adults use in dealing with objects in the world.
Adaptation - Correct Answers -The process of adjusting schemes in response to the
environment by means of assimilation an accommodation.
Assimilation (Piaget) - Correct Answers -The process of understanding a new object or
event in terms of an existing scheme.
Equilibration - Correct Answers -In Piagetian theory, the process of restoring balance
between present understanding and new experiences.
Reflexes - Correct Answers -In the sensorimotor stage of development, all infants have
inborn behaviors that are described by this term.
Object Permanence - Correct Answers -This is the descriptive term used when infants
understand that objects exist even if they cannot be seen.
Parallel play - Correct Answers -The type of play that involves children engaged in the
same activity side by side, but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
Educational psychology - Correct Answers -The discipline or field about learners,
learning, and teaching.
Pedagogy - Correct Answers -The study of teaching and learning with application to the
instructional process.
Intentional teachers - Correct Answers -Teachers who do things for a reason, on
purpose.
Pre-operational stage - Correct Answers -During this stage children are no longer
infants, and their language and concepts develop at incredible rates.
Prosocial behaviors - Correct Answers -Voluntary actions toward others such as caring,
sharing, comforting, and cooperation are referenced by these types of behaviors.
Solitary play - Correct Answers -Play that occurs alone, often with toys, and
independent of what other children are doing.
Teacher efficacy - Correct Answers -The degree to which teachers feel that their own
efforts determine the success of their students.
Theory - Correct Answers -Sets of principles and facts that attempt to explain some
phenomenon.
Law - Correct Answers -Individual principles that have been thoroughly tested.
Principle - Correct Answers -These explain relationships between factors.
Experiement - Correct Answers -A systematic procedure used to study the effects of a
treatment.
Internal validity - Correct Answers -The degree to which the results of a laboratory
experiment can be directly attributed to the treatment studied rather than other factors.
, Single-case experiment - Correct Answers -A type of research in which a single
participant's behavior may be observed over a period of time.
Correlational study - Correct Answers -A type of research that explores the degree to
which two variables are related.
Descriptive research - Correct Answers -A type of non-experimental study aimed at
systematically identifying and gathering detailed information about something.
Intentionality - Correct Answers -When teachers think about the outcomes they desire in
their lessons and how each decision made moves a student toward these objectives,
what are they demonstrating?
Development - Correct Answers -The descriptive term that refers to how and why
people grow, adapt, and change over their lifetimes.
Continuous theories of development - Correct Answers -A set of principles and laws that
suggests that, at a fairly early age, children are capable of thinking and acting like
adults, given the proper experience and education.
Discontinuous theories of development - Correct Answers -Theories that draw on inborn
factors more than environmental influences, in explaining the sequence of changes in
development.
Schemes - Correct Answers -The patterns of behavior or thinking that children and
adults use in dealing with objects in the world.
Adaptation - Correct Answers -The process of adjusting schemes in response to the
environment by means of assimilation an accommodation.
Assimilation (Piaget) - Correct Answers -The process of understanding a new object or
event in terms of an existing scheme.
Equilibration - Correct Answers -In Piagetian theory, the process of restoring balance
between present understanding and new experiences.
Reflexes - Correct Answers -In the sensorimotor stage of development, all infants have
inborn behaviors that are described by this term.
Object Permanence - Correct Answers -This is the descriptive term used when infants
understand that objects exist even if they cannot be seen.
Parallel play - Correct Answers -The type of play that involves children engaged in the
same activity side by side, but with very little interaction or mutual influence.
