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Psychology for children: Grade 7

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  1. 1. What is a cognitive bias?
    1. A. A mental shortcut that leads to a predictable error ← Answer
    2. B. A careful method for checking every claim you hear
    3. C. A fact that most scientists have already proved
    4. D. A habit of always thinking about things the same way
  2. 2. What is conformity?
    1. A. Always disagreeing with everyone else in a group
    2. B. Changing your behavior or opinion to match a group ← Answer
    3. C. Making a rule that the whole group must follow
    4. D. Choosing the leader for a group project
  3. 3. What is a habit?
    1. A. A behavior done automatically in a set situation ← Answer
    2. B. A skill that only adults are able to build up
    3. C. A goal that you write down once and then forget about
    4. D. A choice that you carefully think through each time
  4. 4. In psychology, what does the word identity describe?
    1. A. The way that other people describe you to a stranger
    2. B. Your sense of who you are, including traits, values and roles ← Answer
    3. C. The grade that you earn in a class each term
    4. D. The list of rules that your school expects students to follow
  5. 5. What is motivation?
    1. A. The skill of remembering a long list of facts for a school test
    2. B. The amount of money that a person earns from a weekly job at home
    3. C. The mood that a person has when they first wake up in the day
    4. D. Reasons and energy to start and keep going ← Answer
  6. 6. What is a hypothesis?
    1. A. A fact that every scientist already agrees on
    2. B. A report that explains the results after a study
    3. C. A testable prediction about what will happen ← Answer
    4. D. A group of people who join a research study
  7. 7. What is a stressor?
    1. A. A place where you go to rest after a long and busy day
    2. B. A friend who always gives you very good advice at school
    3. C. Anything that puts demands on you ← Answer
    4. D. A medicine that a doctor gives out to calm the body down
  8. 8. What is a heuristic?
    1. A. A quick rule of thumb for deciding fast ← Answer
    2. B. A slow method for solving a hard problem
    3. C. A mistake that only careless people make
  9. 9. What is a social norm?
    1. A. An unwritten rule for group behavior ← Answer
    2. B. A test that is given to every student each year
    3. C. A law that a judge has written down in a book
  10. 10. What is a cue?
    1. A. The reward that you receive after the habit
    2. B. A trigger that starts a habit ← Answer
    3. C. The effort that makes a habit harder
  11. 11. Which choice names a part of a person's identity?
    1. A. The score from one quiz in math class this week
    2. B. A value, such as caring about fairness ← Answer
    3. C. The weather on the morning of a school day, such as rain
  12. 12. What is intrinsic motivation?
    1. A. Doing something because a friend said that you have to do it
    2. B. Doing something to avoid a penalty that a teacher would give
    3. C. Doing something because it is interesting or satisfying in itself ← Answer
  13. 13. What is a variable in a study?
    1. A. Something that can change in the study ← Answer
    2. B. Something that only the researcher can see
    3. C. Something that is left out of the final report
  14. 14. What is the stress response?
    1. A. A habit of avoiding every task that feels hard to do
    2. B. A plan that you write down in order to solve a problem
    3. C. The body's automatic reaction to a stressor ← Answer
  15. 15. What is confirmation bias?
    1. A. Noticing evidence that fits what you already believe ← Answer
    2. B. Always trusting the first person who happens to speak
    3. C. Changing your mind every time you hear a new fact
    4. D. Choosing the answer that is easiest to remember
  16. 16. What is informational influence?
    1. A. Following others so that you are accepted and liked
    2. B. Ignoring others so you can finish a task faster
    3. C. Disagreeing with others in order to stand out
    4. D. Following others because they must know something ← Answer
  17. 17. What is the routine in a habit loop?
    1. A. The prize that follows it
    2. B. The signal that starts it
    3. C. The behavior itself ← Answer
    4. D. The place where it happens
  18. 18. What is self-concept?
    1. A. The beliefs that you hold about yourself ← Answer
    2. B. How much you enjoy a certain school subject
    3. C. The group of friends that you sit with at lunch
    4. D. What a teacher writes on a report card
  19. 19. What is extrinsic motivation?
    1. A. Doing something because it matches your own deep values
    2. B. Doing something to get a reward or avoid a penalty ← Answer
    3. C. Doing something without any reason or any thought at all
    4. D. Doing something because it feels fun and interesting
  20. 20. What is the independent variable?
    1. A. The list of people who agreed to take part
    2. B. The thing the researcher changes on purpose ← Answer
    3. C. The group that gets no change at all
    4. D. The thing the researcher measures at the end
  21. 21. What is eustress?
    1. A. Stress that comes only from a problem with your friends
    2. B. Long-term stress that lasts for weeks without any real break
    3. C. Short-term stress that helps you perform ← Answer
    4. D. Stress that you feel only when you are fast asleep at night
  22. 22. What is anchoring?
    1. A. Waiting a long time before you finally decide
    2. B. Relying too much on the first piece of information ← Answer
    3. C. Choosing the option that most other people choose
    4. D. Judging a claim by how loudly someone says it
  23. 23. What is normative influence?
    1. A. Copying a rule that you read in a book
    2. B. Following others to be accepted ← Answer
    3. C. Following others because they have better facts
    4. D. Refusing to follow a group on purpose
  24. 24. What is the reward in a habit loop?
    1. A. The benefit that makes it likelier to repeat ← Answer
    2. B. The behavior that you repeat each day in the loop
    3. C. The signal that tells your brain to start the habit
    4. D. The plan that you make ahead of time for tomorrow
  25. 25. What is self-esteem?
    1. A. The list of traits that you would write about yourself
    2. B. How much you value and respect yourself ← Answer
    3. C. A rumor that other students tell about you
    4. D. The score on a test of your memory skills
  26. 26. A player loves the sport and plays even when nobody is watching. Which kind of motivation is this?
    1. A. Intrinsic motivation ← Answer
    2. B. No motivation
    3. C. Penalty motivation
    4. D. Extrinsic motivation
  27. 27. What is the dependent variable?
    1. A. What the researcher measures as the effect ← Answer
    2. B. The rule that keeps people safe while they are in a study
    3. C. The place where the whole study takes place each time
    4. D. The thing the researcher changes on purpose in the study
  28. 28. What is chronic stress?
    1. A. Stress that helps you win every game that you play in
    2. B. Stress that you feel for just a few minutes before a quiz
    3. C. Stress that disappears whenever you decide to ignore it
    4. D. Stress lasting long without recovery ← Answer
  29. 29. What is availability bias?
    1. A. Believing whatever an expert has said most recently
    2. B. Judging something likely when examples come easily ← Answer
    3. C. Judging something as unlikely because it is very rare
  30. 30. What is peer pressure?
    1. A. Pressure from a parent to finish your homework
    2. B. A feeling of being very tired after a long day
    3. C. Influence from people your age ← Answer
  31. 31. What are the three parts of the habit loop, in order?
    1. A. Cue, routine, reward ← Answer
    2. B. Cue, reward, routine
    3. C. Routine, reward, cue
  32. 32. What is reputation?
    1. A. What other people think about you ← Answer
    2. B. The goals that you set for the new year
    3. C. What you secretly believe about your own skills
  33. 33. A player plays only to win a trophy. Which kind of motivation is this?
    1. A. Intrinsic motivation
    2. B. Interest motivation
    3. C. Extrinsic motivation ← Answer
  34. 34. What is a control group?
    1. A. A group that writes the final report for the whole class
    2. B. A group that gets the biggest change out of any in a study
    3. C. A group that gets no change, for comparison ← Answer
  35. 35. What is coping?
    1. A. The act of waiting for a problem to go away on its own
    2. B. The feeling of being sure that nothing is wrong at all
    3. C. The thoughts and actions you use to handle stress ← Answer
  36. 36. What is a sunk cost?
    1. A. The price of an item before it goes on sale
    2. B. A cost that is shared evenly among a group
    3. C. Time or money already spent for good ← Answer
    4. D. Money that you plan to spend sometime next week
  37. 37. What is dissent?
    1. A. Leaving a group quietly
    2. B. Following a group without question
    3. C. Disagreeing openly with a group ← Answer
    4. D. Choosing a leader for a group
  38. 38. What is an implementation intention?
    1. A. A feeling that starts a habit
    2. B. A reward that you give yourself afterward
    3. C. A habit that is hard to break
    4. D. An if-then plan for when you will act ← Answer
  39. 39. Which sentence describes a strength?
    1. A. I am always the last one to finish my lunch
    2. B. I was born on a Tuesday during the spring season
    3. C. I am good at explaining ideas to friends ← Answer
    4. D. I wish that I had been born into a different family
  40. 40. Are both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation normal?
    1. A. Yes, both are normal and both can be useful ← Answer
    2. B. No, only intrinsic motivation is normal
    3. C. No, neither kind is normal for students
    4. D. No, only extrinsic motivation is normal
  41. 41. What is a correlation?
    1. A. A group of people who were picked at random for a study
    2. B. A rule that protects the people who take part in a study
    3. C. Two things that tend to change together ← Answer
    4. D. A proof that one thing is the cause of another thing
  42. 42. What is problem-focused coping?
    1. A. Waiting for someone else to fix the problem
    2. B. Pretending that the stressor is not there
    3. C. Managing feelings about something you cannot change
    4. D. Taking action to change or solve the stressor ← Answer
  43. 43. What is evidence?
    1. A. A guess that was made by someone you trust
    2. B. A strong feeling that a claim must be true
    3. C. Facts that support or challenge a claim ← Answer
    4. D. An opinion that a large number of people share
  44. 44. What is an ally?
    1. A. A person who copies what you do
    2. B. A person who supports you when you speak up or stand up for something ← Answer
    3. C. A person who disagrees with every choice you make
    4. D. A person who leads the whole group
  45. 45. Which sentence is an if-then plan?
    1. A. If it is 7 a.m., then I will brush my teeth ← Answer
    2. B. Brushing teeth is a good habit for anyone to have
    3. C. My teeth feel much better when I brush in the morning
    4. D. I should really brush my teeth more often than I do
  46. 46. What are values?
    1. A. Opinions that you copied from a popular online video
    2. B. Beliefs about what matters most in life ← Answer
    3. C. Facts about the city where you were born and raised
    4. D. Skills that you practice for a school sport each week
  47. 47. What is overjustification?
    1. A. When an outside reward lowers inner interest ← Answer
    2. B. When you give too many reasons for skipping an activity
    3. C. When a reward makes an activity more fun than it was before
    4. D. When a coach asks you to explain every choice you make in a game
  48. 48. What is a sample?
    1. A. The entire population of the whole world
    2. B. The group of people actually studied ← Answer
    3. C. The prediction made before a study
    4. D. The list of questions in a survey
  49. 49. What is emotion-focused coping?
    1. A. Blaming other people for the stressor that you face
    2. B. Managing feelings about what you cannot change ← Answer
    3. C. Telling yourself that you have no feelings about it
    4. D. Taking action right away to change the stressor itself
  50. 50. Who has cognitive biases?
    1. A. Only people who do not read
    2. B. Everyone, including scientists ← Answer
    3. C. Only people who do poorly in school
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What 7th grade social-emotional covers

7th grade social-emotional at UpOnly Learning is 7 topics, taught in this order: stress and coping, what drives us: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, building and breaking habits, thinking errors and cognitive bias, social influence and conformity, identity and self-concept, and how scientists study behavior. The 50 questions above are drawn from those topics, with the answer marked beside each one, so you can see what has stuck and what needs another lesson. The workbook teaches each topic with a 40-minute lesson; the free PDF sample has one full topic.

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  • Stress and coping: Explain the stress response and match coping strategies to stressors
  • What drives us: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: Use autonomy, competence and relatedness to build motivation
  • Building and breaking habits: Use the cue, routine and reward loop to build and replace habits
  • Thinking errors and cognitive bias: Spot confirmation bias, anchoring and other thinking shortcuts and think more fairly
  • Social influence and conformity: Explain why people conform and how to stay true to personal values
  • Identity and self-concept: Describe identity as many changing parts and write a strengths-and-values statement
  • How scientists study behavior: Describe observation, surveys and experiments and judge whether evidence supports a claim

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Thinking Errors and Cognitive Bias

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“Your brain takes shortcuts to decide fast. Most of the time that works, and sometimes it leads you wrong in predictable ways.”

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Mia believes she is unlucky at games. She remembers every loss but not wins. Name the bias and a fix.

Answer: Confirmation bias, since she notices the evidence that fits her belief. Fix: keep a tally of wins and losses over a month.

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Only unintelligent people have biases.

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Explain that everyone has them, including experts. Smart people can be good at defending their biases.

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