In cognitive theory, the term schema refers to:
a. the range of situations to which any skill will transfer.
b. the automatization of skills through repeated practice.
c. a collection of related concepts and their interconnections.
d. the daily habit of practice toward the goal of expertise.
Ques. 2For which diagnostic approach would concept maps be most useful?
a. Mastery of specific objectives
b. Identifying students' errors
c. Prerequisite deficits
d. Knowledge structure analysis
Ques. 3In the node-link model of LTM, a node that reaches a threshold of activation rises to the level
of:
a. action.
b. speech.
c. emotion.
d. consciousness.
Ques. 4According to the mastery approach, what is Mary's weak area?
a. Addition
b. Division
c. Multiplication
d. Subtraction
e. She has no weak area.
Ques. 5According to the mastery approach to diagnosis, which student has a weakness in addition?
a. Frank
b. Joe
c. Judy
d. Mary
e. None of the students
Ques. 6According to the content profile of strengths and weaknesses diagnostic approach to diagnosis, which student has a weakness in addition?
a. Frank
b. Joe
c. Judy
d. Mary
e. None of the students
Ques. 7Philosophers have by and large given up on the search for certain foundations of knowledge.
Instead, they tend to see meaning as being embedded in language. A turning point was:
a. the dispute between Plato and Aristotle.
b. Descartes' declaration of Cogito, ergo sum.
c. Wittgenstein's rejection of logical positivism.
d. Chomsky's debate with Skinner.
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