Research on metacognition reveals children are
a. active in their development.
b. passive in their development.
c. qualitatively changing in stages.
d. quantitatively changing in stages.
Question 2INFORMATION PROCESSING is to PIAGET as _____ is to _____.
a. QUANTITATIVE; QUALITATIVE
b. QUALITATIVE; QUANTITATIVE
c. ACTIVE; PASSIVE
d. PASSIVE; ACTIVE
Question 3Which of the following is NOT a legitimate criticism of the information-processing approach?
a. It has had limited impact on instructional strategies.
b. The mind-computer analogy underestimates the richness of human cognition.
c. It is a fragmented understanding of human cognition.
d. The assumption that working memory is a single, limited capacity store is flawed.
Question 4Which of the following is NOT a strength of the information-processing approach?
a. It detailed processes that Piaget did not identify.
b. It has led to important instructional changes to support learning.
c. It has identified domain-specific academic skills.
d. It provides a coherent, holistic picture of the development of cognition.
Question 5The fact that East Asian children tend to practice math facts more often than American children illustrates how _____ can impact acquisition of arithmetic skill.
a. linguistic support
b. instructional support
c. physcial support
d. strategic development
Question 6The fact that American children must master idiosyncratic number words and this makes it more difficult for them to develop arithmetic skills illustrates how
a. American culture is substandard for teaching science and math.
b. linguistics affects acquisition of arithmetic skill.
c. arithmetic skill affects linguistics.
d. poorly adapted the Chinese numbering system is.
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