Students' sense of self-efficacy affects their goals, their choice of activities, and their effort and persistence in classroom activities. Consequently, it also affects their learning and achievement. Describe how Karen's self-efficacy about learning French changes over the course of the case study and how it potentially affects her thinking and behavior.
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Ques. 2Many middle schools and junior high schools have a no cuts policy regarding extracurricular activities; in other words, teams and clubs accept anyone who wants to join them. Is this a good idea? Why or why not?
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Ques. 3Claire and Dawnece appear to know far more about effective study strategies than Karen doesan advantage that can best be described as which one of the following?
a. Social cognition
b. Divergent thinking
c. Formal operational reasoning
d. More sophisticated metacognitive awareness
Ques. 4By using flash cards to study in French I, Karen apparently thinks that mastering French involves little more than memorizing vocabulary words. This perception is an example of which one of the following?
a. Verbal mediation
b. Convergent thinking
c. An epistemological belief
d. The sensory register in action
Ques. 5The differing expectations between Tom's Alabama school (which expected formal dress and speech) and Tom's new school (at which standards for dress and speech are more relaxed) illustrate which one of the following phenomena?
a. Assimilation
b. Self-handicapping
c. Cultural mismatch
d. Multicultural education
Ques. 6Identify various benefits that participation in extracurricular activities might have for young adolescents.
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Ques. 7Explain Jared's newly found interest in extracurricular activities using the concept of vicarious reinforcement.
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Ques. 8In Erik Erikson's view, in which stage of psychosocial development are the three boys likely to be?
a. Initiative vs. guilt
b. Intimacy vs. isolation
c. Industry vs. inferiority
d. Identity vs. role confusion
Ques. 9Children sometimes develop misunderstandings of what certain words mean. What meaning does Mindy construct for the concept recess? What existing knowledge does she use in constructing this meaning?
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Ques. 10Psychologists have offered a variety of reasons as to why children sometimes have naive ideas about the world. Rodney clearly has a very naive view of what a teacher is. Three of the following factors may have contributed to his misconception in this situation. Which one is least likely to have done so?
a. Children are apt to draw conclusions based on how things appear to be.
b. Common expressions in language sometimes misrepresent the true nature of physical events.
c. Many children have a very limited knowledge base to use in elaborating on their observations and experiences.
d. Children may perpetuate their misbeliefs by disregarding information that is inconsistent with those beliefs.
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