Which one of the following statements best describes intersubjectivity?
a. Recognizing that one does not, and never can, know everything there is to know about a topic
b. The point at which a teacher understands the nature of a child's existing knowledge about a topic
c. The point at which a child acquires the same knowledge about a topic that a teacher or other expert has
d. A mutual understanding between two people that each one knows what the other one is seeing, thinking, or feeling
Ques. 2Which one of the following students is most likely to have trouble learning in a noisy classroom?
a. a first grader
b. a third grader
c. a sixth grader
d. a tenth grader
Ques. 3Only one of the following statements is consistent with what we know about the development of attention and its role in children's learning. Which one?
a. Children become increasingly distractible during the elementary school years.
b. Children are most likely to pay attention to familiar rather than unfamiliar objects.
c. Children show an increasing tendency to learn only the things they actually intend to learn.
d. Distractibility decreases during the elementary school years but increases briefly at puberty.
Ques. 4Twelve-month-old Claude has just crawled to the edge of a deep, empty swimming pool. If Claude is like most children his age, he will:
a. Stop crawling forward, and possibly move away from the edge
b. Find the sharp dropout quite fascinating and lean forward to look down
c. Continue crawling because his perceptual abilities don't allow him to detect the dropout
d. Continue crawling because, although he can perceive the drop-off, he hasn't yet developed a fear of heights
Ques. 5To prepare for his test on Tuesday morning, Harry studied on Monday night. He remembered the information long enough to do well on the test on Tuesday but could not remember it for a surprise quiz a week later. Based on this information, how far in Harry's information processing system did the information get?
a. It reached the sensory register.
b. It reached working memory.
c. It reached long-term memory.
d. It never got into the memory system at all.
Ques. 6As three-month-old Isabella lies in a comfortable infant seat, a researcher shows her a variety of pictures on a video screen. If Isabella is typical of children her age, which one of the following pictures is apt to hold her attention the longest?
a. A fuzzy kitten
b. A smiling face
c. A bowl of fruit
d. A car with horizontal racing stripes