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Multiple choice Psychology of Education PED3701 Year
module Department of Psychology of Education
Bachelor of education (University of South Africa)
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Multiple choice questions:
The following two criteria must be presented to describe an adolescent as resilient, namely significant
adversity and:
1. Negative adjustment
2. Positive adjustment (page 237)
3. Negative support
4. Positive support
A learner who repeatedly scores low marks in tests, and attribute this to the teacher who is seen as
being against them, is using the following defence mechanism
1. Denial
2. Depression
3. Projection (page 105)
4. Regression
According to Erikson, adolescents experience a crisis characterised by:
1. Intimacy versus isolation
2. Identity versus identity diffusion (page 109)
3. Generativity versus stagnation
4. Initiative versus guilt
Which statement is true with regard to the peer group?
1. The values of the peer group always differ from those of the parents
2. The peer group offers the adolescent an opportunity to compete with others on an equal
footing (page 92)
3. Peer groups always consist of members of the same sex and culture
4. Conformity to the peer groups identity is essential and individual identity is rejected
Parents who encourage communication with their adolescent children are
1. Permissive
2. Authoritarian
3. Authoritative (page 84)
4. Over-involved
Constructivism means that the
1. Learner constructs knowledge for themselves (page 224)
2. Teacher constructs the knowledge for the learner
3. Learner and the teacher together construct the knowledge
4. Learner constructs knowledge with the help of other learners
There are three steps in the memory processing process namely, working/short-term memory, long-
term memory and
1. Sensory register (page 226)
2. Central executive
3. Memory register
4. Memory executive
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A stimulant that is used to treat children and adolescents who have attention-deficit and hyperactivity
disorder is called:
1. Codeine
2. Rohypnol
3. Ritalin
4. Mandrax
Which one is not one of the three body structure types that can be distinguished?
1. Ectomorph
2. Endomorph
3. Mesomorph
4. Intromorph (page 26)
The microsystem of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model for understanding social influences includes:
1. The school, mass media and workplaces
2. Family, the school and peers (page 79)
3. The neighbours, school and family
4. Peers, family and extended family
Sternberg proposes that intelligence comprises three aspects. Which of the following is not one of the
aspects?
1. Practical intelligence
2. Creative intelligence
3. Existential intelligence (page 56)
4. Analytical intelligence
The whole process of adolescent sexual functioning and reproductive maturity takes about _____ years
1. three
2. four (page 19)
3. five
4. six
A new drug that seems to be causing serious concern in South African townships, is a deadly drug
named:
1. Tik
2. Kwape
3. Nyaope (page 195)
4. Popeyes
Scaffolding forms part of:
1. Erickson’s theory
2. Vygotsky’s theory (page 55)
3. Piaget’s theory
4. Sternberg’s theory
Using excuses to justify what may be considered unacceptable behaviour is called:
1. Projection
2. Suppression
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3. Denial
4. Rationalization (page 105)
When you remember the sequence of the colours green, blue, red, orange and yellow by the acronym
GBROY you make use of the _______ memory strategy
1. Rehearsal
2. Organisation
3. Elaboration (page 228)
4. Mental routine
Most of the empirical research into moral reasoning is based on ____ theory
1. Kohlberg’s (page 122)
2. Erickson’s
3. Gilligan’s
4. Hurlock’s
An adolescent who wants to establish a realistic identity and does not know how to do this, function on
the following identity status, name identity:
1. Diffusion (page 109)
2. Moratorium
3. Achievement
4. Foreclosure
Adolescents who are in the concrete operational phase of cognitive development cannot:
1. Understand laws of conservation (page 47)
2. Make use of memory, thought and imitation
3. Use direct personal experience for thinking
4. Handle possibilities and hypotheses
The most important aspects for mental health are positive thinking and
1. Physical fitness
2. Cognitive reasoning
3. Achieving goals (page 43)
4. Achieving emotional maturity
The belief of an adolescent girl that nothing bad can happen to her, for example getting pregnant refers
to:
1. Imaginary audience
2. Personal fable (page 48)
3. Imaginary world
4. Invincible fable
The primary symptoms of anorexia nervosa are the individual’s
1. Tendency to binge at times, only to purge himself/herself afterwards by for example vomiting
2. Relentless pursuit of excessive thinness and the consequent loss of weight (page 159)
3. Social withdrawal and preoccupation with food
4. Feelings of uncertainty and dissatisfaction with body image
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Multiple choice Psychology of Education PED3701 Year
module Department of Psychology of Education
Bachelor of education (University of South Africa)
Studocu is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university
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Multiple choice questions:
The following two criteria must be presented to describe an adolescent as resilient, namely significant
adversity and:
1. Negative adjustment
2. Positive adjustment (page 237)
3. Negative support
4. Positive support
A learner who repeatedly scores low marks in tests, and attribute this to the teacher who is seen as
being against them, is using the following defence mechanism
1. Denial
2. Depression
3. Projection (page 105)
4. Regression
According to Erikson, adolescents experience a crisis characterised by:
1. Intimacy versus isolation
2. Identity versus identity diffusion (page 109)
3. Generativity versus stagnation
4. Initiative versus guilt
Which statement is true with regard to the peer group?
1. The values of the peer group always differ from those of the parents
2. The peer group offers the adolescent an opportunity to compete with others on an equal
footing (page 92)
3. Peer groups always consist of members of the same sex and culture
4. Conformity to the peer groups identity is essential and individual identity is rejected
Parents who encourage communication with their adolescent children are
1. Permissive
2. Authoritarian
3. Authoritative (page 84)
4. Over-involved
Constructivism means that the
1. Learner constructs knowledge for themselves (page 224)
2. Teacher constructs the knowledge for the learner
3. Learner and the teacher together construct the knowledge
4. Learner constructs knowledge with the help of other learners
There are three steps in the memory processing process namely, working/short-term memory, long-
term memory and
1. Sensory register (page 226)
2. Central executive
3. Memory register
4. Memory executive
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A stimulant that is used to treat children and adolescents who have attention-deficit and hyperactivity
disorder is called:
1. Codeine
2. Rohypnol
3. Ritalin
4. Mandrax
Which one is not one of the three body structure types that can be distinguished?
1. Ectomorph
2. Endomorph
3. Mesomorph
4. Intromorph (page 26)
The microsystem of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model for understanding social influences includes:
1. The school, mass media and workplaces
2. Family, the school and peers (page 79)
3. The neighbours, school and family
4. Peers, family and extended family
Sternberg proposes that intelligence comprises three aspects. Which of the following is not one of the
aspects?
1. Practical intelligence
2. Creative intelligence
3. Existential intelligence (page 56)
4. Analytical intelligence
The whole process of adolescent sexual functioning and reproductive maturity takes about _____ years
1. three
2. four (page 19)
3. five
4. six
A new drug that seems to be causing serious concern in South African townships, is a deadly drug
named:
1. Tik
2. Kwape
3. Nyaope (page 195)
4. Popeyes
Scaffolding forms part of:
1. Erickson’s theory
2. Vygotsky’s theory (page 55)
3. Piaget’s theory
4. Sternberg’s theory
Using excuses to justify what may be considered unacceptable behaviour is called:
1. Projection
2. Suppression
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3. Denial
4. Rationalization (page 105)
When you remember the sequence of the colours green, blue, red, orange and yellow by the acronym
GBROY you make use of the _______ memory strategy
1. Rehearsal
2. Organisation
3. Elaboration (page 228)
4. Mental routine
Most of the empirical research into moral reasoning is based on ____ theory
1. Kohlberg’s (page 122)
2. Erickson’s
3. Gilligan’s
4. Hurlock’s
An adolescent who wants to establish a realistic identity and does not know how to do this, function on
the following identity status, name identity:
1. Diffusion (page 109)
2. Moratorium
3. Achievement
4. Foreclosure
Adolescents who are in the concrete operational phase of cognitive development cannot:
1. Understand laws of conservation (page 47)
2. Make use of memory, thought and imitation
3. Use direct personal experience for thinking
4. Handle possibilities and hypotheses
The most important aspects for mental health are positive thinking and
1. Physical fitness
2. Cognitive reasoning
3. Achieving goals (page 43)
4. Achieving emotional maturity
The belief of an adolescent girl that nothing bad can happen to her, for example getting pregnant refers
to:
1. Imaginary audience
2. Personal fable (page 48)
3. Imaginary world
4. Invincible fable
The primary symptoms of anorexia nervosa are the individual’s
1. Tendency to binge at times, only to purge himself/herself afterwards by for example vomiting
2. Relentless pursuit of excessive thinness and the consequent loss of weight (page 159)
3. Social withdrawal and preoccupation with food
4. Feelings of uncertainty and dissatisfaction with body image
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