WGU EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
3 Factors of Instructional Contexts correct answer physical (instructional media),
social (opportunities for peer & student-teacher interaction), motivational
(content being relevant/interesting to students)
3 Types of Orthopedic Impairment correct answer neuromotor impairments (ex:
cerebral palsy), degenerative diseases, musculoskeletal disorders
3 Ways to Learn (Skinner) correct answer imitating others, prompting from
others, shaping from others; associated with Behaviorism
4 Types of Knowledge (Bloom's Revised Taxonomy) correct answer factual,
conceptual, procedural, metacognitive
Accommodation correct answer adapting our current understandings (schemas)
to incorporate new information
Assimilation correct answer interpreting our new experiences in terms of our
existing schemas
Authentic Assessment correct answer a testing procedure that focuses on the
process used in solving complex, real-life problems rather than the product that
results from the process
Bandura correct answer Theorist who focused on observational learning; famous
for the Bobo doll experiment; active in social-cognitive theory
, Bandura's 4 Elements of Observational Learning correct answer attention,
memory, imitation, motivation (also called mediational processes)
Behaviorism correct answer learning theory that emphasizes the predictable role
of environment in causing observable behavior
Bloom correct answer theorist who developed taxonomy of cognitive processes
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy correct answer remember, understand, apply,
analyze, evaluate, create
Care Ethics correct answer The theory that attitudes like caring and sensitivity to
context is an important aspect of the moral life, particularly for women and girls;
developed by Carol Gilligan
Chomsky correct answer theorist who formed the Universal Grammar theory;
associated with language development
Classical Conditioning correct answer a learning process that occurs when two
stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited only by the second
stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
Cognitivism correct answer the theory that learning is a conscious, rational
process; focuses on what is happening inside the brain, specifically how memory
develops and how external factors combine with prior beliefs and understandings
to create memory/learning; prioritizes teaching students to use the "right"
learning strategies that promote transfer of knowledge into long-term memory
QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS
3 Factors of Instructional Contexts correct answer physical (instructional media),
social (opportunities for peer & student-teacher interaction), motivational
(content being relevant/interesting to students)
3 Types of Orthopedic Impairment correct answer neuromotor impairments (ex:
cerebral palsy), degenerative diseases, musculoskeletal disorders
3 Ways to Learn (Skinner) correct answer imitating others, prompting from
others, shaping from others; associated with Behaviorism
4 Types of Knowledge (Bloom's Revised Taxonomy) correct answer factual,
conceptual, procedural, metacognitive
Accommodation correct answer adapting our current understandings (schemas)
to incorporate new information
Assimilation correct answer interpreting our new experiences in terms of our
existing schemas
Authentic Assessment correct answer a testing procedure that focuses on the
process used in solving complex, real-life problems rather than the product that
results from the process
Bandura correct answer Theorist who focused on observational learning; famous
for the Bobo doll experiment; active in social-cognitive theory
, Bandura's 4 Elements of Observational Learning correct answer attention,
memory, imitation, motivation (also called mediational processes)
Behaviorism correct answer learning theory that emphasizes the predictable role
of environment in causing observable behavior
Bloom correct answer theorist who developed taxonomy of cognitive processes
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy correct answer remember, understand, apply,
analyze, evaluate, create
Care Ethics correct answer The theory that attitudes like caring and sensitivity to
context is an important aspect of the moral life, particularly for women and girls;
developed by Carol Gilligan
Chomsky correct answer theorist who formed the Universal Grammar theory;
associated with language development
Classical Conditioning correct answer a learning process that occurs when two
stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited only by the second
stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
Cognitivism correct answer the theory that learning is a conscious, rational
process; focuses on what is happening inside the brain, specifically how memory
develops and how external factors combine with prior beliefs and understandings
to create memory/learning; prioritizes teaching students to use the "right"
learning strategies that promote transfer of knowledge into long-term memory
