HCM CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC YEAR 2017 –2018

FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT TIME: 90 MINUTES

FINAL TEST OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Student’s Full Name: ……………………………………………………… Student’s ID…………………..

Marks (in figures) Marks (in words) Teacher’s signature

PART A (70 ms)

1. Cognitive learning theorists seem to emphasize the importance of attention in the learning process. From the
three component model of memory, why is attention so important?

a. It helps information record to the sensory register.

b. It facilitates information moving from sensory register to working memory.
c. It requires to encode into long-term memory.
d. Without it, retroactive interference will occur.

2. Match each of the following types of memory with its definition, then write the answers on the answer sheet:

a. episodic memory

b. procedural memory

c. semantic memory

___________ (i) part of long-term memory that stores personal facts and experiences.

___________ (ii) type of memory associated with general facts and knowledge or concepts.

___________ (iii) part of the long-term memory that is responsible for knowing how to do things, stores
information on how to perform certain skill procedures.

Choose the correct answer to write on the answer sheet

3. When a student applies flexibly his existing knowledge into new learning tasks, he or she is doing a/an
_______________

a. assimilation c. equilibration
b. accommodation d. lateralization
4. The preoperational stage, as described by Piaget, includes individuals in which of the following age groups
_____________

a. birth to 2 years c. 7 to 11 years

b. 2 to 7 years d. 11 years through adulthood

5. Which is the best example of seriation from the following examples?

a. Lorna lines her blocks up in a straight row.

b. Billy lines his blocks by color.
c. Jermaine lines his blocks from biggest to smallest.
d. Troy chews on his blocks.

6. The teacher notices Tuan cannot solve a problem on his own, but can when he is given either adult or peer
guidance. This guidance is called __________.

a. assisted performance
b. the zone of proximal development
c. preoperational thinking
d. lateralization

7. Unlike Piaget's model of child development, Vygotsky's model emphasizes the importance of social
interactions in shaping children's knowledge.

a. True b. False

8. Stickers, teachers’ words of praise and small gifts_________________________

a. are positive reinforcers.

b. may be positive reinforcers, depending on the effect they have.
c. are negative reinforcers.
d. may be reinforcers, depending on the timing.

9. While behaviorists may differ on specifics about that learning occurs, they agree on emphasizing the ______

a. importance of rewards.
b. power of individual interest.
c. role of thinking in processing information.
d. the importance of environment on learning.

10. Which is the following is the best example of an intrinsic reinforcement?

a. Being able to have a new motorbike after getting good grades.

b. Feeling happy about obtaining all learning objectives of a major project.
 c. Getting a certificate stating that you are excellent in speaking English.
d. Feeling good about pleasing the teacher or parents.

11. Ms. Alvarez has been teaching for 20 years. She has learned that it is best to structure her class so that
students complete the projects and activities that they really do not like first; only after completing these
"disliked" activities can they engage in the projects and activities that they do like. This is an example of:

a. Negative reinforcement
b. Time-out
c. Premack principle
d. Punishment

12. When students have multiple needs operating at one time, Maslow would suggest that students will _____

a. attempt to meet all of the needs simultaneously.

b. satisfy their favorite need first.
c. respond to a hierarchy and priority of human needs.
d. respond the needs with effort.

13. __________ is the first step of self –regulated.

a. Goal-setting and strategic planning

b. Monitoring outcomes and refining strategies
c. Putting a plan into action and monitoring the plan
d. Self-evaluation and self-monitoring

14. Students who are motivated primarily by desire for knowledge acquisition and self-improvement while
doing challenging would most likely be _____________________

a. master goal- oriented.

b. performance goal-oriented.
c. external locus control.
d. achievement oriented.

15. Constructivist view of learning as the followings direct a teacher’s lesson EXCEPT that _________

a. Teacher should plan instructional activities in the form of problems for students to solve.
b. Teachers should plan lessons that allow students to follow their instruction in the fixed way.
c. Teachers should plan lessons that facilitate the student’s ability to build his or her own knowledge in
collaborative learning.
d. Teaching emphasizes top-down processing for student to discover the basic knowledge and skills so that
they solve problems or perform tasks.
16. One of Piaget’s key ideas about children development is their ability of____________when they learn
through their assimilation and accommodation.

A. equilibrium B. schema C. adaptation D. egocentrism

17. Which of the following examples best illustrates the active involvement of learner in meaningful learning?

a. Georgia thinks of his personal examples when learning about new concepts in science.
b. Jodi classifies animals based on interesting and common features.
c. Adam uses symbols to represent words that he has difficulty spelling.
d. Harold and Mohammed work together when designing a telescope.

18. Cognitive apprenticeship is a tool that involves ________.

a. an expert stretching and supporting a novice's acquisition of cultural knowledge.

b. assisted learning that guides students to become better over the course of a teaching session.
c. encouraging reflection and discussion through using adults or more advanced peers as role models and
learning in cooperative groups to acquire expertise gradually.
d. thinking and learning that is located in social and physical contexts such as field trips or workplace.

19. Which of the following statements best describes the nature of declarative memory?

a. Karen applies knowledge to perform a certain task.

b. Scott recognizes a famous person.
c. Natasha is able to provide specific factual and conceptual information about an event.
d. Ivan recalls a specific event from his or her past.

20. According to the decay theory, which of the following is the cause of forgetting?

a. Lack of schema
b. Disintegration of memory traces
c. Lack of initial encoding
d. Interference by new information

21. Ursula is taking an algebra exam and in order to remember the order in which to perform certain functions
on the exam, Ursula aids her memory by writing down the word 'GRUMPY' on her paper. She smiles knowing
that this will help her reach the right answers. Which mnemonic Ursula is using?

a. cue-dependent forgetting
b. initial-letter strategies
c. keyword method
d. loci method
22. Rehearsal is a strategy best used when students need to ___________.

a. generate examples of a concept

b. encode information for long-term memory
c. remember a list of items for a brief period of time
d. organize information

23. An individual who takes a constructivist approach to teaching would most likely encourage students to do
which of the following?

a. Solve math problems c. Memorize information

b. Collaborate with others d. Assemble puzzles

24. Which of the following scenarios best depicts a student or students thinking critically?

a. Abdul memorized a list of spelling words for a spelling bee.

b. Felix and Sue are thinking reflectively and productively, as well as evaluating the evidence.
c. Gabriel and Todd are brainstorming ideas for the class play.
d. Martin is trying to think of all of the examples of the concept "vegetable."

25. Which of the following examples best illustrates problem solving?

a. Athena thinks of personal examples when learning about new concepts in geometry.
b. Isabella classifies animals based on common features.
c. Cheryl uses made-up symbols to represent words that she is memorizing.
d. Monica and Anna work together to find an appropriate way to attain a goal.

26. Sue is not excited about having to read another Shakespearean play. She has already read two of
Shakespeare's plays and she concluded from reading those two plays that she dislikes the general nature of
Shakespeare's plays. Sue is engaging in ________.

a. inductive reasoning c. critical thinking

b. deductive reasoning d. decision making

27. Ronald is very good at being able to think about something in novel and unusual ways and come up with
unique solutions to the problem. This means that Ronald is very___________.

a. good at problem solving

b. good at analogies
c. good at thinking critically
d. creative problem solving

28. The roots of constructivist approaches to learning are the works of ________________
 a. Behaviorist theories

b. Piaget and Vygotsky’s cognitive theories

c. Bandura’s social theory

d. Moral development theorists

29. ______________ is the ability to reason backward from a conclusion to its cause. According to Piaget,
preoperational children lack this skill.

a. Laterization c. Reversibilty

b. Object permenance d. Analogy

30. Vygotsky’s stage in the development of speech characterized by silent “self-talk” is called ________.

a. personal speech c. egocentric speech

b. private speech d. social speech

31. What are the best two pairs of practice type?

a. distributed and over learning; mass practice and part learning

b. distributed and part learning; mass practice and over learning
c. distributed and mass practice; over learning and part learning
d. part learning and mass practice and over learning and distributed practice

32. Amber is the most popular girl in her class. She is always surrounded by many friends and dates regularly.
Amber likes all of the attention; in fact over the summers when her parents send her to spend time with her
relatives in another city, Amber feels like something is drastically missing from her life. Although, she loves her
relatives, she does not receive the peer attention that she so craves. In fact, she can hardly wait to be back with
her friends. Usually as soon as she arrives in town she throws a party where she will embellish about her
summer trip in order to maintain her friend’s approval. Amber is displaying ________.

a. a strong need for affiliation

b. a helpless orientation
c. the failure syndrome
d. an internal, unstable, and uncontrollable attribute

33. Which of the following is true about the process of teaching?

a. Teaching can be non-relational

b. Teaching can be passive and as well as an active process
c. Teaching is an intentional, goal-directed process.
 d. None of above is true.

PART B (30 ms)

1. What is an intentional teacher like from the educational psychology perspective? (10 ms)

2. Give one example of how a teacher can make learning English meaningful (10 ms)

3. Provide an example of how an English is a self- regulated learner (10 ms)

 ANSWER SHEET
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Full name: ……………………………………………………………………… Student ID………………….

PART A (70 ms)

1) _______________

2) (i)_______________ (ii)__________________ (iii)___________________

3)_______________ 4) ________________ 5)_________________ 6) _________________

7)_______________ 8) ________________ 9)_________________ 10) ________________

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23)_______________ 24) ________________ 25)_________________ 26) ________________

27)_______________ 28) ________________ 29)_________________ 30) ________________

31)_______________ 32) ________________ 33) ________________

Total: 35 items, each item is scored 0, 2

PART B (30 marks)

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Good Luck!
 ANSWER KEY
PART A (70ms)

1) b

2) a c B

3) a 4) b 5) c 6) b

7) a 8) b 9) d 10) b

11) c 12) c 13) a 14) a

15) b 16) c 17) a 18) c

19) c 20) d 21) b 22) b

23) b 24) b 25) d 26) c

27) d 28) b 29) c 30) b

31) c 32) a 33) c

PART B (30 ms)

1) Intentional teachers (10 ms)

- keep learning purposes in their mind for their lesson plans

- plan their lessons in a thoughtful and strictly organising manner

- intelligently adapting principle or knowledge of educational psychology to make proper decisions in their
teaching.

2) Describe one example of how a teacher can make learning English meaningful through organizing
information or activating students’ prior knowledge or let students use language in particular situations (10 ms).

3) Provide an example of English student as a self-regulated learner (10 ms).

- set their own learning goals

- self- motivate their learning and maintain their making effort in learning
- know how to use a variety of learning strategies and methods to acquire English skills
- do a lot of practice to make their English skills to the level of automaticity.