There are several ways of responding when a friend wants to discuss a problem or a concern that ...

There are several ways of responding when a friend wants to discuss a problem or a concern that he/she has. Of these alternatives we can say that
 
  a. Understanding and paraphrasing are good, whereas questioning and probing are not
  b. Reassuring and supporting are good, but questioning and probing are not
  c. Advising and interpreting can be appropriate when carefully worded
  d. All of them are appropriate but under different circumstances

Ques. 2

There are two basic things that determine how effective you are in listening and responding to other people. One of them is your intentions and attitudes, and the other is:
 
  a. The actual words and phrases you use when responding
  b. How patient and devoted you are to the relationship
  c. The dynamics of your relationship, including its history
  d. The depth of your understanding of the feeling in question

Ques. 3

When Erin was complaining to her boss how difficult it is to make ends meet now that she has to care for her invalid mother, her boss replied, You know you should just work harder and you would make more money. Her reply shows
 
  a. Advising and evaluating
  b. Analyzing and interpreting
  c. Questioning and probing
  d. Paraphrasing and understanding

Ques. 4

Which of the following is consistent with Ericsson's theory of deliberate practice?
 
  a. the development of expert performance in a domain depends on the quality of practice
  b. the development of expert performance in a domain depends on the quantity of practice.
  c. both of the above
  d. none of the above

Ques. 5

Which of the following statements is correct concerning higher and lower performing music students?
 
  a. higher performing students spent more time practicing than lower performing students
  b. lower performing students had more parental encouragement
  c. the high performing students differed from the low performing students in terms of early musical ability
  d. the high performing students differed from the low performing students in terms of early musical exposure

Ques. 6

A student who is able to carry out a procedure more easily without needing to verbalize each step but does it slowly, is in which stage of Anderson's theory of cognitive skill learning:
 
  a. autonomous stage
  b. associative stage
  c. cognitive stage
  d. none of the above

Ques. 7

Barbara was telling her friend, Rachel, how much her boss makes her work these days, and how critical he is when he finds even a tiny mistake in what she does. After some thinking, Rachel says, if I were you, I would tell him that he expects too much. You should talk to him first thing in the morning. Rachel's intention underlying her response is:
 
  a. Advising and evaluating
  b. Analyzing and interpreting
  c. Questioning and probing
  d. Paraphrasing and understanding

Ques. 8

Trowbridge and Cason asked students to draw lines of a certain length for thousands of trials. Some students were given no feedback, some were told right or wrong after each trial (right-wrong feedback), and some were told exactly how far off they were after each trial (how-much feedback). Which group(s) performed the best?
 
  a. right-wrong feedback group and how-much feedback group both showed the same improvement because both are given rewards and punishments but the no feedback group did not improve
  b. all groups improved equally because all get equal amounts of practice
  c. the how-much feedback group performed best d. the no feedback group did the best because the students could learn on their own