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21) You teaching a class of students who very inexperienced : 1184229
21) You are teaching a class of students who are very inexperienced in solving problems on their own. What is the most useful strategy for the teacher to use in order to help students solve the problems for a particular unit?
A) Combine the use of guidelines for problem solving with student self-monitoring.
B) Provide an algorithm that specifies the steps for one of the specific problems.
C) Supply general guidelines for problem solving and have students experiment through trial and error.
D) Use teacher demonstrations in conjunction with partner learning.
22) Use of the READS method would probably have questionable benefits for
A) children in early elementary school.
B) encouraging a distributed practice schedule.
C) high school students.
D) improving recall of information from the text.
23) One of the conditions for using good learning strategies is that students must
A) be able to work independently.
B) understand that ability is more important than effort.
C) value and care about learning.
D) have speed of learning.
24) Cheryl gets good grades in her language class but uses incorrect grammar and punctuation in her written work in other classes. This situation suggests a problem with
A) assimilation.
B) encoding.
C) integration.
D) transfer.
25) Rory learned about divergent rays in physics class when he was studying the effects of lenses. Later, in his psychology class, he immediately understood the concept of “divergent thinking.” What learning experience did Rory have?
A) A response set
B) Functional fixedness
C) General transfer
D) Negative transfer
26) Jennifer had her stomach pumped after she ingested part of an unknown compound in chemistry class. “But at home we always taste things to find out whether they’re sugar or salt,” she said. Jennifer is a victim of
A) negative transfer.
B) improper coding.
C) intuitive thinking.
D) positive transfer
27) Learning Latin to improve basic intelligence would possibly be inefficient due to
A) general rather than specific transfer taking place.
B) specific rather than general transfer taking place.
C) the impracticality of disciplining mental processes.
D) the irrelevance of the subject.
28) Overlearning is the process of practicing a skill
A) for too long, such that retroactive inhibition develops.
B) for too long, such that proactive inhibition develops.
C) past the point of mastery, such that retention is improved.
D) similar to one previously learned, so that positive transfer is realized.
29) Before pulling off the bank job, Bugsy had his gang recite the steps of the operation. “Do we hafta, Bugsy?” complained Willy. “We must have been over them steps fifty times already.” Bugsy is aware of the benefits of
A) general transfer.
B) making learning meaningful.
C) modeling.
D) overlearning.
30) Which one of the following transfer stages is NOT one of Gary Phyte’s stages in developing strategic transfer of learning?
A) Acquisition phase
B) Overlearning phase
C) Retention phase
D) Transfer phase
31) The stage of transfer for strategies in which the teacher should provide new problems that can be solved with the same strategy is the stage of
A) acquisition.
B) overlearning.
C) retention.
D) transfer.
The eighth grade is preparing for its annual “School Scam Skit,” in which students parody amusing school events during the year. Alonzo, the class President, discovers that the class has mistakenly sold 500 tickets for an auditorium with a seating capacity of only 200. The auditorium is not available for any other night, and the class does not have the funds available to rent a suitable room elsewhere. Numerous possible solutions may exist, but the class is feeling panicked. The class officers are meeting in order to attempt to find a solution to this problem. What type of cognitive approach is each class officer using?
32) Gwen, the class Vice President, suggested that they organize committees that would be responsible for (1) checking the calendar to see if the program could be held on two consecutive nights; (2) checking with other junior or senior high schools in the community to find out about availability of their facilities; and (3) checking on the possibility of using the high school’s football stadium to construct a stage and lighting system for an outdoor program.
A) Analogical thinking
B) Brainstorming
C) Means-end analysis
D) Response set
E) Working backwards
33) Nephi, the class Treasurer, told the class officers that this situation reminded him of the Titanic sinking. Accordingly, the Titanic officers could have preserved three times the number of people had they allowed the passengers to lay alongside the life boats and support themselves by holding onto the gunnels. Perhaps the solution to the current problem is embedded in the Titanic problem.
A) Analogical thinking
B) Brainstorming
C) Means-end analysis
D) Response set
E) Working backwards
34) Which one of the following is the first step in the KWL reading strategy?
A) Asking “what I have I learning?”
B) Asking “what do I already know about this subject?”
C) Asking “which mnemonic will help me the most in this situation?”
D) Asking “what do I want to know?”
E) Asking “which information is most likely to be on the test?”
35) Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Analogical thinking and metacognition are the same process.
B) Children in second grade are too young to engage in self-reflection.
C) Very young children are better metacognitve thinkers than adolescents.
D) Students’ metacognitive skills are fixed because they are aligned to their learning style.
E) Metacognitive knowledge and skills can be learned and improved.
