Young students periodically make surprising conclusions, such as, Most houses in France are made out of plaster of Paris. Based on the principles of cognitive learning theory, which of the following is the most likely reason students make these conclusions?
a. Teacher presentations often aren't clear, so students develop misconceptions.
b. Teachers often fail to adequately reinforce students for the correct conclusions that they make.
c. Students create these conclusions because the conclusions make sense to the students.
d. Students create these conclusions based on seeing similar conclusions modeled by other students.
Ques. 2Three of the following statements are characteristics of sensory memory. Which one is not a characteristic of sensory memory?
a. Its capacity is virtually unlimited.
b. It holds information in unorganized form.
c. Information is quickly lost if it isn't processed.
d. Information can be retained in it if rehearsed.
Ques. 3The memory store that briefly holds incoming stimuli from the environment until they can be processed is called:
a. sensory memory.
b. working memory.
c. semantic memory.
d. long-term memory.
Ques. 4On career day a teacher is careful to invite in nonstereotypical role models (e.g. male nurses and female engineers). Of the following, the most likely reason the teacher does this is that she realizes a model's effectiveness depends on:
a. perceived similarity.
b. perceived competence.
c. perceived status.
d. perceived reward.
Ques. 5A pedestrian standing at a red light sees someone else cross against the light and then does the same. This is an example of:
a. direct modeling.
b. indirect modeling.
c. symbolic modeling.
d. synthesized modeling.
Ques. 6Prominent celebrities and athletes are often recruited to endorse certain products, even though they don't necessarily know anything about the productsuch as an athlete endorsing a type of underwear. We can explain this tendency with social cognitive theory by saying:
a. the celebrities and athletes are effective models because they're rich.
b. the celebrities and athletes are effective models because they have high status.
c. the celebrities and athletes are effective models because they get large monetary rewards.
c. the celebrities and athletes are effective models because they're usually physically attractive.