Melinda, a seventh grader, was diagnosed with a moderate learning disability several years
ago. She likely can be characterized by all of the following except:
a. She has an IQ that is much lower than her peers.
b. She has difficulty in learning with regards to a specific processing skill.
c. She has an individualized education plan at her school.
d. She spends the large majority of instructional time in a mainstream classroom.
Ques. 2Dyslexia is strongly associated with deficits in phonemic awareness. Such deficits include
typically do not include:
a. difficulty in mentally preserving sound order when hearing spoken language.
b. difficulty in distinguishing the written letters of the alphabet.
c. difficulty in mapping sounds to letters of the alphabet.
d. difficulty hearing speech as sequences of distinct sounds.
Ques. 3A history student learns that the Allies airlifted over 3,000,000 tons of supplies into
Berlin during the Berlin Blockade. This information has become a part of her
a. episodic memory
b. conditional knowledge
c. declarative knowledge
d. metacognition
Ques. 4A particular computer sitting on a person's desk would be a ___?___ of the concept
personal computer.
a. attribute
b. feature
c. example
d. none of the above
Ques. 5From the standpoint of the information processing model, experts and novices differ
significantly with respect to
a. sensory memory limitations
b. short term memory capacity
c. the amount of knowledge in long term memory
d. all of the above
Ques. 6In the game of tennis, the ball is the
a. operator
b. main constraint on the operator
c. source of functional fixedness
d. heuristic
Ques. 7Learning is a constructive process because what we know affects how we
a. perceive incoming information
b. organize incoming information
c. interpret incoming information
d. all of the above
Ques. 8The most important constraint on expert problem solving is
a. motivation
b. power
c. domain-specific knowledge
d. creativity
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