1) Ivan Pavlov conducted a series of studies that led him to propose his theory of
classical conditioning. In these studies, Pavlov observed how a dog learned to:
a.Bark when meat was presented
b.Bark when meat was taken away
c.Wake up when an auditory stimulus (e.g., a bell) was presented
d.Salivate to a simple stimulus such as a light or bell
2) Mr. Smart tells his students that they can do whatever they want for the first ten
minutes of class but must then turn their attention to the days assignment. The students
are delighted with their ten minutes of free time but they dont attend to the assignment
when its time to do so. From an operant conditioning perspective, what mistake has Mr.
Smart made?
a.There is a delay in reinforcement.
b.He has used negative reinforcement instead of positive reinforcement.
c.Free time is not an effective reinforcer for the students.
d.The reinforcer is presented before the response.
3) Which one of the following pairs of students best illustrates a difference with respect
to students epistemic beliefs?
a.Irene thinks that doing well in high school is important for getting into a good college,
but Isabelle thinks that she can get into college with mediocre grades as long as she has
high SAT scores.
b.Julie likes going to school because thats where she sees her friends every day, but
Janette likes going to school because of all the new things she learns there.
c.Keith thinks that learning chemistry is a process of memorizing symbols and
formulas, but Kareem thinks that chemistry involves trying to understand the nature of
elements and compounds.
d.Loren is well aware of the criteria his teacher is using to evaluate his classroom
performance, but Luke is clueless about why hes doing poorly in the same teachers
class.
4) Jenny is taking a quiz which asks for the chemical symbols of 20 elements. She
remembers 19 of them but cannot remember the symbol for mercury. As she walks
home from school, she suddenly remembers that the symbol for mercury is Hg. Jennys
memory problem during the quiz can best be explained in terms of:
a.decay
b.repression
c.construction error
d.failure to retrieve
5) Which one of the following best illustrates expository instruction?
a.Students in Mr. Phillips English class discuss underlying themes in Shakespeares
Hamlet.
b.Students in Mr. Richards science class look at handouts and PowerPoint slides that
depict the life cycle of the butterfly.
c.Students in Ms. Thallers geometry class work at their desks trying to prove the
side-angle-side theorem for triangles.
d.Students in Ms. Verdens history class write the answers to a series of short questions
in a workbook and then turn the page to get feedback regarding the correct answers.
6) Sheila is a physicist who has been successfully solving physics problems for years.
Tamara is a beginning physics student. Which one of the following differences between
Sheila and Tamara are we most likely to see in terms of how they approach physics
problems?
a.Sheila is more likely than Tamara to make sure the problems are well-defined before
she begins to solve them.
b.Sheila is more likely than Tamara to classify problems based on their superficial
characteristics.
c.Sheila is apt to retrieve less information from long-term memory than Tamara
retrieves.
d.Sheila is more likely than Tamara to have functional fixedness when she works on
problems.
7) From an expectancies/values perspective, which one of the following activities are
you least likely to value?
a.One that will gain the admiration of your peers
b.One to which youll have to devote most of your time in order to succeed
c.One that you dont enjoy but is important for career success
d.One that will enable you to obtain desired reinforcement
8) Jean Piagets ideas were largely ignored by American psychologists until the 1960s.
Three of the following are probable reasons why this was so. Which one is not a likely
reason?
a.Piaget studied children rather than nonhuman species.
b.Piagets ideas were incompatible with behaviorist theory.
c.Most of Piagets writings were in French.
d.Piaget used research methods that were unconventional in the eyes of American
psychologists.
9) Which one of the following is a higher-level question?
a.Can you remember the three categories of rocks that we studied yesterday?
b.Now that I have done one multiplication problem on the board, can you do the next
two multiplication problems on your own?
c.Can you use what we learned about snakes and what we know about climate in North
America to guess where this snake might live?
d.Here are the same rocks that we studied yesterday. Can you sort them into three
pilessedimentary, igneous, and metamorphicthe way we did yesterday?
10) An instructional objective that requires students to recite a definition exactly as it
has been presented is at the ________ level in Blooms taxonomy.
a.synthesis
b.knowledge
c.comprehension
d.analysis
11) Based on findings from verbal learning research, which list of 3-letter syllables
should be most difficult to learn?
a.CAR, DOG, BUN
b.BUX, RIJ, NOP
c.TON, FIT, AIR
d.XDP, MFC, RLJ