Educational Psychology 1

When you get into your car and start to drive, the car makes that annoying sound indicating that you have not put your seat belt on. To stop the car from making that sound, you buckle your seat belt. In this case, your behavior to buckle up is maintained by:

• Positive Reinforcement

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

Pedro used to really enjoy tuna salad. At a recent company party, Pedro became quite ill after eating tuna salad that had been sitting in the sun for too long. Now even the sight of a can of tuna in the grocery store makes him feel sick. In this example, the sick feeling Pedro experiences when he sees tuna at the grocery store is a: 

• conditioned response

• unconditioned response

• conditioned stimulus

• unconditioned stimulus

Kembly has a problem with acquisition and use of language; she has a little difficulty with reading, writing, reasoning, or math, therefore she feels outcasted from her group. This is an example of:

• Intellectual deficiency

• Learning disability
  

• Emotional disorder

• Difficulty impairment

Frederick is a teacher at the Wonderland Elementary School and he has a class with 10 kids. Adrian comes from a very poor family, you can identify the kid by the clothes, those are kind of dirty and look like there has been used before by someone else (probably his older sibling Andre). Frederick is not enthusiastic to have Adrian in his classroom, he thinks it might be difficult to teach him. This is a clear concept of:

• Pedagogy Relevancy

• Academic influence

• Tracking poor teaching

• Teaching Behavioral self-control

Brandon is a great student, he has been the first in his class during every year of school, the teachers talk about him all the time at the teachers lounge, praising what a great student he is. He's always "the role model" and the first choice for their teachers for special activities. This is an example of the following concept:

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Academic Behavior self-control

• Bias

Brandon is a great student, he has been the first in his class during every year of school, the teachers talk about him all the time at the teachers lounge, praising what a great student he is. He's always "the role model" and the first choice for their teachers for special activities. This is an example of the following concept:

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Academic Behavior self-control

• Bias