EDPY 200-Educational Psychology Final
Exam
Research by Ogden, Brophy, and Everston (1977) on selecting primary-grade students to read
aloud suggests that the best method is to - ✔✔to call on students in a prescribed o
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EDPY 200-Educational Psychology Final
Exam
Research by Ogden, Brophy, and Everston (1977) on selecting primary-grade students to read
aloud suggests that the best method is to - ✔✔to call on students in a prescribed order
The concerns of educational psychology are distinctive in that they - ✔✔relate to improving
learning and instruction
A negative correlation coefficient between time spent studying and test anxiety indicates that, in
general, the more students study - ✔✔the less they experience test anxiety
Wong's research (1987) indicated that when subjects read a research result, they tended - ✔✔to
find the results more obvious than originally thought
What kind of research does not belong to the category of descriptive research? -
✔✔experimental
Which factor is NOT one of the four factors that Piaget has identified that contribute to cognitive
development? - ✔✔identity
Which word would likely be the most difficult for a six-year-old to pronounce correctly? -
✔✔these
Robert thinks he is hiding from his mother by crouching behind a chair. Even though his mother
can easily see his legs and feet, Robert believes he is well concealed because he can't see his
mother. This situation is most likely an example of - ✔✔egocentrism
For developing children's language and literacy abilities, your test suggested that - ✔✔families
should promote literacy by reading and making printed materials available
Based on his work in biology, Piaget theorized that all species inherit basic tendencies toward -
✔✔organization and adaptation
You are teaching an average-ability grade five class (ages 10-12) a new unit on magnetism and
how it operates. Which teaching approach would generally be most appropriate for this group? -
✔✔Discuss the principles of magnetism in conjunction with demonstrations of how these
principles operate.
Five-year-old Jerome sees a complex mathematical proof in his mother's old university textbook.
After he has looked at the mathematical proof, it would be most likely that - ✔✔neither
assimilation nor accommodation has occurred
Young children often mispronounce words. When they do, the teacher should - ✔✔respond to
the content of the statement and ignore the error
What, in general, is the earliest stage at which a child would successfully engage in reversible
thinking? - ✔✔concrete-operational
The area of language that specifically deals with word order is called - ✔✔syntax
Which statement regarding child abuse is most true? - ✔✔The most likely perpetrators of abuse
on children are parents
Which statement is most true regarding how Kohlberg's theory treats social conventions relative
to moral issues? - ✔✔Little differentiation between moral and social issues is characteristic of
this theory
Teachers today are more likely than teachers 10 years ago to have students who - ✔✔are
members of blended families
What does research suggest about the relationship between self-esteem and success in school? -
✔✔There is a positive relationship
Carol Gilligan has proposed that wome
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