Obtaining good results with lower-track classes requires extra effort in planning and in organizing instruction.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 2Gretchen thinks about Christopher Columbus, which reminds her of Spain, which in turn reminds her that she needs to do her homework for her Spanish class. Which one of the following does Gretchen's train of thought best illustrate?
A) The interconnectedness of long-term memory
B) Elaboration in working memory
C) Reconstruction error in retrieval
D) Encoding during long-term memory storage
Ques. 3Adjustments in management and instructional organization practices are sometimes needed to meet the needs of different groups of students.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 4Students with emotional or behavioral disorders
a. often exhibit behavioral cues indicating that an outburst is imminent.
b. have feelings markedly different in nature from those of their non-disabled peers.
c. should be carefully monitored to ensure that each instance of misbehavior is dealt with swiftly and thoroughly.
d. typically dislike school and their teachers.
Ques. 5A language arts teacher teaches her students the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) and wants her students to continue to remember them as they study English and foreign languages in the years to come. Considering the factors affecting retrieval of information from long-term memory, choose the strategy below that should maximize the likelihood that students will remember the different parts of speech over the long run.
A) Have students study them early in the school year and periodically review them in various contexts throughout the year.
B) Have students study them intensely for a month, and then stay away from any discussion of them for the rest of the school year.
C) Have students study each part of speech separately, perhaps a different one each month.
D) Have students memorize definitions of each part of speech until they can recite the definitions word for word.
Ques. 6Sarah needs to know her division facts for a quiz tomorrow. She wants to do as well as she possibly can on the quiz. Taking what psychologists have learned about automaticity into account, which one of the following would be the best advice to give Sarah?
A) Repeat each fact at least five times silently.
B) Repeat each fact at least five times out loud.
C) Study the facts until you know each one and then do something entirely different until morning.
D) Study the facts until you know them all perfectly, and then continue to practice them periodically after that.
Ques. 7Students with ADHD typically have good organizational skills.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Ques. 8Many psychologists believe that learning and understanding are often quite constructive in nature. Three of the following scenarios illustrate such construction. Which scenario does not necessarily involve construction in learning?
A) Although no one has ever told her so, Peggy thinks that the night sky is a big black blanket covering the earth and that the blanket has tiny holes through which the stars shine.
B) Mr. McFarland asks his third graders to practice their multiplication tables every day. After a month of such practice, Misty can retrieve all the basic multiplication facts quickly and easily.
C) When George reads about the Vietnam War in his history book, he comes to the conclusion that the United States should never have gotten involved in Southeast Asia.
D) Because the word photosynthesis begins with photo, Jeremy guesses that it must have something to do with taking photographs.
Ques. 9If we consider the concept of reciprocal causation, we must conclude that the quality of students' classroom experiences is influenced:
A) Primarily by what teachers do in the classroom.
B) Primarily by how students think about classroom material.
C) Both by classroom events and by what students themselves do.
D) Largely by things that have happened to students in the past.
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