Your 6th grade students are severely lacking in metacognitive skills. Describe four strategies to help them improve their skills.
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Ques. 2According to Gestalt theory, the primary task of psychology is to determine
a. how an individual attributes meaning to events.
b. how an individual perceives the environment.
c. ways in which perceived stimuli can be organized.
d. why perceptual stimuli influence people.
Ques. 3Describe two of the problems posed by prior knowledge in the application of new strategies.
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Ques. 4The major law of learning according to Thorndike, is the presence of
a. a response to partial stimulus elements.
b. a satisfying state following a response.
c. the repeated practice of all responses.
d. the transfer to responses to similar stimuli.
Ques. 5The Gestalt suggestion that problem solvers reformulate the functions of the givens is an example of which important subprocess in problem solving?
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Ques. 6According to the Gestalt researchers, nonroutine problems require which type of thinking?
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Ques. 7Functional fixedness and problem set, identified by the Gestalt researchers, are examples of which problem component?
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