Sternberg identified a form of knowledge that consists of the unspoken, unwritten rules of success ...

Sternberg identified a form of knowledge that consists of the unspoken, unwritten rules of
  success in specific situations, such as work. People who are particularly good at acquiring such
  knowledge are said to be high in:
 
  a. practical intelligence.
  b. strategic intelligence.
  c. tacit intelligence.
  d. analytical intelligence.

Ques. 2

Which of the following research methods is the best to determine cause-and-effect relations?
 
  a. experimental research
  b. correlational research
  c. quasi-experimental research
  d. qualitative research

Ques. 3

In a randomized experiment, the purpose of randomization is mainly to help ensure that:
 
  a. assignment to treatment groups is done fairly.
  b. whatever results are obtained can be attributed to the treatment.
  c. the researcher has no predictions about outcomes.
  d. the findings can be generalized to a larger population.

Ques. 4

Schemata in our memories serve which of the following functions
 
  a. They help us make information meaningful
  b. They provide structure to what we know
  c. They provide interconnections among categories of information
  d. all of the above

Ques. 5

Benjamin Bloom's research on mastery learning showed that differences in learning rates
  between faster and slower learners:
 
  a. became larger.
  b. stayed the same.
  c. became smaller.
  d. disappeared completely.

Ques. 6

Carroll's model of time and learning recognizes that:
 
  a. students have different learning styles.
  b. students have multiple intelligences.
  c. students learn at different rates.
  d. students can learn in a variety of settings.

Ques. 7

Long-term memory refers to memory that
 
  a. exists over periods of days, weeks, or longer
  b. will never be lost from recall
  c. has little relation to real life events
  d. is not available to the working memory

Ques. 8

Dyslexia is most commonly identified with:
 
  a. confusion in ordering similar-looking letters, such as b, p, and d.
  b. problems in spoken language.
  c. difficulty in distinguishing phonemes and mapping those to alphabetic letters.
  d. chromosomal abnormalities.

Ques. 9

Parallel distributed processing (PDP) is a theory that emphasizes
 
  a. humans' ability to simultaneously consider many pieces of information
  b. computers' ability to simultaneously consider many pieces of information
  c. the movement from decoding to comprehension in reading
  d. the pattern of knowledge as it is stored as a static copy

Ques. 10

Schema theory stresses which of these features of memory?
 
  a. decay and loss
  b. structure and organization
  c. interference and overlearning
  d. distinctiveness and elaboration