Which is true about Vygotsky's notion of private speech?
a. Private speech can result from an internalization of social dialog.
b. Private speech follows a covert-to-overt developmental cycle.
c. Private speech is associated with children and adolescents, but not adults.
d. Private speech decreases when the difficulty of a task increases.
Ques. 2The mind processes information like a computer, would be a statement most likely to
be made by a
a. structuralist
b. cognitive psychologist
c. phenomenologist
d. behaviorist
Ques. 3According to Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory, which of the following is an example
of two dissonant cognitions?
a. I don't really like the color red. My friend is wearing a red shirt.
b. I went to Chicago. It rained in Philadelphia.
c. I have to get a gift for Jen. Her birthday is tomorrow.
d. Frank lent me 20 . I'm very angry at him.
Ques. 4Reciprocal teaching closely relates to all of the following except:
a. reinforcement schedules.
b. cooperative learning.
c. internalization of higher order thinking.
d. division of labor of intellectual activity.
Ques. 5Experts and novices differ in all of the following ways except:
a. which features of a problem they recognize.
b. how much time they spend planning and solving problems.
c. which heuristics they use.
d. how well they remember meaningless patterns.
Ques. 6Experts will most likely employ a working forward heuristic when solving problems in their
domain. In which situation might they need to employ a different heuristic?
a. They face severe time constraints to solve a problem.
b. Their self-efficacy regarding the problem is low.
c. They are working on a familiar problem.
d. The problem they face is particularly novel.
Ques. 7Which of the following is not associated with expertise?
a. a heavy reliance on domain knowledge
b. analyzing problems according to their surface characteristics
c. many years of full-time engagement in the field
d. a significant proportion of time spent on problem representation
Ques. 8In comparison to experts, novices can be led astray more easily by:
a. relying too heavily on domain knowledge.
b. analyzing the problem according to important principles of the discipline.
c. the surface features of problems.
d. drawing upon similar problems in different domains.