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11.A concrete operational thinker and a formal operational thinker are given the following logical statements: (1) If you drop a 20-pound bowling ball on your foot, it will tickle. (2) You drop a 20-pound bowling ball on your foot. What reaction would you expect?
a.Only the concrete operational thinker would conclude that “your foot would tickle.”
b.Only the formal operational thinker would conclude that “your foot would tickle.”
c.Both would conclude that “your foot would tickle.”
d.Both would conclude that “your foot would never tickle” after having a 20-pound bowling ball dropped on it.
12.________ psychologists focus on the means by which children store information in memory and retrieve it when it is needed at a later time.
a.Piagetianc.Ethological
b.Biopsychosociald.Information-processing
13.Thirteen-year-old Kiki is learning to play the piano, and her teacher is showing her the notes of a standard musical scale. She is struggling to remember which notes go on the lines and which notes go in the spaces, so the teacher says, “To remember that the line notes are E, G, B, D, and F, just say to yourself Every Good Boy Does Fine.” This type of memory strategy demonstrates ________.
a.formalizingc.operations
b.reversibilityd.organization
14.If you use the old mnemonic “My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas” to remember the order of the original nine planets in our Solar System as they move outward from the Sun, you are using a memory strategy called ________.
a.centrationc.schematizing
b.egocentrismd.organization
15.A memory strategy that involves embellishing information in order to make it easier to recall is called ________.
a.mnenomizingc.self-referencing
b.elaborationd.organization
16.Fifteen-year old Stephanie is having difficulty remembering how to spell the word “definitely” for an upcoming quiz in her English class. She can’t remember whether it is “definitely” or “definately.” She thinks about it for a moment and decides that the easiest way to remember is that the word has one prefix (“de”), one root word (“finite”), and one suffix (“ly”). By separating the root word, she has an easier time remembering that the middle vowel is “i” and not “a.” Stephanie has used the memory strategy of ________ to master this word.
a.acrosticsc.elaboration
b.rehearsald.organizing
17.Your authors note that as children progress through the elementary-school years, they become more adept at selecting appropriate strategies for learning and remembering. These skills fall under the larger heading of
a.metacognition.c.meta-analysis
b.metamemory.d.metamorphosis
18.Fourteen-year old Franco is doing his homework for the night, and starts by reading some of the history chapter he was assigned. Every few pages, he turns to the “Test yourself” quiz at the end of the chapter to try to answer the questions on the material he just read. If he gets the questions wrong, he reviews the material again. Franco is engaged in ________.
a.centratingc.monitoring
b.validatingd.rehearsing
19.The best example of metamemory would involve knowing that
a.a 10-word list of unfamiliar foreign words will be harder to recall than a 20-word list of familial words.
b.whales are mammals, not fish.
c.two numbers added together produce a sum that his greater than either number alone.
d.foreign words come from another country.
20.An individual’s informal understanding of memory, including the ability to accurately assess memory problems and to monitor the effectiveness of their remembering strategies, is called ________.
a.metamemoryc.metacognitive knowledge
b.metacognitiond.meta-analysis
