Which 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. 2Only 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. 3Twelve-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. 4To 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. 5As 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
Ques. 6A staff member at a child care center says to you, The children at our center range in age from 6 weeks old to 5 years old. I often wonder when their visual perception abilities become fully developed. You can most accurately respond by saying:
a. They can see as well as you can within 24 hours after birth.
b. Their visual acuity improves dramatically within the first two months and is as good as that of an adult by about eight weeks of age.
c. Curiously, their eyesight is quite good at about six weeks but then temporarily deteriorates over the next few months as the brain undergoes reorganization.
d. Visual perception isn't truly adultlike until age 3 or 4, when the visual area of the cortex matures to an adultlike form.
Ques. 7Which one of the following examples best illustrates involvement of a central executive in information processing?
a. Adam absentmindedly cracks his knuckles every minute or two.
b. Brigette thinks about how she can best prepare for a history test.
c. Claudia has trouble keeping her mind on her classwork.
d. David is frightened the first time he hears the loud noises at a fireworks display.
Ques. 8Mr. Wagner stands in front of the class explaining the process of photosynthesis. Ellen is sitting in the front row, but her mind is on the fight she had with her best friend just before class. Based on this information, how far in Ellen's information processing system did Mr. Wagner's lecture get?
a. It reached the sensory register.
b. It reached working memory.
c. It reached long-term memory.
d. It never got into the system at all.
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