EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology

1. Evan is a 12th grader. He believes that learning only happens if he works hard at memorizing content. This belief is part of Evan's.

A) Transactional model

B) Multidimensionality

C) Psychology

D) Epistemology

Answer: Epistemology

Reason: Epistemology, which can be defined as the nature as well as the scope of knowledge and is concerned with what knowledge is, how is it acquired and the limit or the extent to which the subject or the content can be known.

2. If you believe that student achievement is related to a number of factors such as student characteristics, school policies, and teacher behavior, then you have adopted a(n)

A) Behavioral view of teaching and learning

B) Epistemological view of the teaching-learning process

C) Ecological view of teaching and learning

D) Transactional model of the teaching-learning process

Answer: Behavioral view of teaching and learning

Reason: Teaching is suppose to be concerned with the kind of attitude that the stakeholders involved in the process of teaching possess. It is the apt attitude of teacher and the student that can aid in the effective learning and eventually the student achievement.

3. When a child encounters something new and reacts to it by relying on an existing schema, _____ occurs.

A) Accommodation

B) Assimilation

C) Syntax

D) Taxonomic constraint

Answer: Accommodation

Reason: Jean Piaget explains Accommodation where he states that children learn new things by altering by altering the existing schemas with new one which can also be termed as an adaptation process.

4. To Piaget, which person has the most intelligence?

A) Stephanie has an IQ of 120

B) Sarah can deal with ever-changing circumstances at work

C) Bonnie, a 10-year-old can recite batting statistics of his favorite baseball team.

D) Rachael's GPA is a perfect 4.00.

Answer: Sarah can deal with ever-changing circumstances at work

Reason: Piaget states that intelligence cannot be known by numbers but it is how effectively an organisms interacts with his ...