Mr. Rizzo just finished teaching a unit on World War II. He wants to assess his students'
knowledge of the unit. He designs a test that has a single essay question: What important roles
did Winston Churchill play during the war? Mr. Rizzo had devoted an entire week of
instruction to this topic. The students are given the entire class period to answer the question.
Which test quality following is most threatened with Mr. Rizzo's test?
a. bias
b. validity
c. standardization
d. practicality
Ques. 2In working memory, the central executive
a. stores verbal information
b. stores visual information
c. regulates the flow of information
d. stores newly acquired knowledge
Ques. 3Which of the following is NOT more likely to be used by experts than novices?
a. knowledge of central principles
b. bottom-up processing
c. organized schematic knowledge
d. top-down processing
Ques. 4Knowledge that is only used in a particular context is known as ___?___ knowledge.
a. static
b. frozen
c. simple
d. inert
Ques. 5Rigidity in using objects or tools in certain ways is known as
a. overlearning
b. response set
c. functional fixedness
d. foreclosure
Ques. 6If you need to compute the area of a rectangle, you should use a/an
a. heuristic
b. plan
c. algorithm
d. model
Ques. 7Which theorist suggested that problem solving is an entirely trial and error process?
a. E. L. Thorndike
b. John Dewey
c. Wolfgang Kohler
d. Allen Newell and Herbert Simon
Ques. 8Which of the following can be construed as evidence that behaviorism is not able to
account for all behavior?
a. the Language Acquisition Device
b. learning through imitation
c. the existence of goals
d. all of the above
Ques. 9The research on expert knowledge suggests that
a. children never remember as much as adults
b. novices can usually remember as much as experts if they try
c. biology is more important than background knowledge
d. experts remember more than novices because of their background knowledge
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