Word connotations are:
a. All of these choices.
b. The objective meaning of a word. c. Positive and negative emotions.
d. The associations that a word can suggest or evoke.
Ques. 2A definition needs to include both the term and its class. This statement means:
a. A definition needs to include both the word to be defined as well as the
family of things to which it belongs.
b. A definition needs to explain how this word differs from all other words.
c. A definition needs to explain the word's connotation.
d. A definition needs to be understandable.
Ques. 3The advantage of having a precise vocabulary to describe your experience is that it enables you to learn and experience even more. This quotation from the text means:
a. If you can accurately describe how you feel, you can better observe and
interpret how others feel.
b. Learning the name for one kind of apple requires familiarity with its
distinguishing characteristics. Furthermore, this knowledge might lead you to
look more closely at other types of apples and appreciate their characteristic
differences.
c. All of these choices.
d. If you learn the names for the types of dance patterns used in salsa dancing,
you will better see and appreciate similarities in the rumba and samba.
Ques. 4Jean Piaget said that thinking involves assimilation, (easy understanding of something because it fits into prior frames of reference,) and accommodation, (having to create a new frame of reference). Furthermore, Piaget said that when we succeed in assimilating or accommodating a new experience, we feel equilibrium; but when we cannot, we feel disequilibrium. Consider this illustrative story. The first time an eighteen-month-old child is left by his mother with a babysitter, he cries inconsolably. He is miserable. Three hours later she comes back. The same thing happens several days in a row. Gradually the child realizes that although his mother may go away, she always returns and greets him with love. Now he waves goodbye when she leaves and plays contentedly with the babysitter.
a. This story illustrates resignation.
b. The main point of this story is to illustrate disequilibrium.
c. This story illustrates how successful accommodation restores equilibrium.
d. This story illustrates assimilation.
Ques. 5Jean Piaget defines thinking as an active process whereby people organize their perceptions of the world. Rephrased, this definition means:
a. The ability to think depends upon intelligence.
b. Thinking occurs in pictures rather than words.
c. Thinking makes sense of our perceptions and puts them into a mental order.
d. Thinking occurs without our awareness.
Ques. 6Observation is a process of sensing, perceiving, and thinking. Sensing collects data through the sense organs, perception studies and interprets the data and thinking organizes the perceptions. This summary means:
a. Observing begins with seeing.
b. Observing is a thinking process.
c. Observing involves sensing, perceiving, and thinking.
d. Perceiving is the same as seeing.
Ques. 7What was the main thing that Agassiz was trying to teach Scudder?
a. To realize that a scientist needs to develop observation skills in order to
obtain specific reliable data. b. To see that the fish had symmetrical sides with paired organs.
c. To listen and learn from his teacher.
d. To develop patience.
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