Self-efficacy beliefs are known to influence all of the following except:

Self-efficacy beliefs are known to influence all of the following except:
 
  a. persistence.
  b. choice of activities.
  c. rate of learning.
  d. effort expenditure.

Ques. 2

Which type of teaching strategy is most student-centered?
 
  a. direct teaching
  b. lecturing
  c. Socratic dialogue
  d. didactic teaching

Ques. 3

What does critical thinking involve?
 
  a. collecting new data
  b. being perfectly accurate
  c. arguing about information
  d. evaluating the accuracy and worth of information or argument

Ques. 4

Which of the following is not true of discovery learning?
 
  a. It involves teacher-centered delivery.
  b. It suggests that learning is a result of discovery.
  c. It emphasizes students' thought processes.
  d. It is consistent with a constructivist approach.

Ques. 5

Discovery learning depends heavily on the process of:
 
  a. inference, especially induction.
  b. deduction, especially induction.
  c. inference, especially deduction.
  d. deduction, especially inference.

Ques. 6

Only one of the following is a necessary aspect of critical thinking. Which one?
 
  a. separating and controlling variables
  b. evaluating information or arguments
  c. visual-spatial thinking
  d. algorithmic problem solving

Ques. 7

With enough practice, activities that at one time entailed problem solving can become:
 
  a. frantic.
  b. ballistic.
  c. heuristic.
  d. algorithmic.

Ques. 8

Which one of the following are students least likely to obtain in a typical classroom?
 
  a. the knowledge they need to solve a problem
  b. lots of practice solving ill-defined problems
  c. lots of practice solving well-defined problems
  d. instruction in how to use a particular algorithm

Ques. 9

Which of the sequences correctly describes Pavlov's classical conditioning during the training
  phase? (UCS: unconditioned stimulus; UCR: unconditioned response; CS: conditioned
  stimulus.)
 
  a. UCS  UCR CS
  b. UCS  CS  UCR
  c. CS  UCS  UCR
  d. CS  UCR UCS

Ques. 10

Insightful problem solving can sometimes be found even in animals. This was a discovery
  of:
 
  a. classical behaviorists.
  b. operant conditioning theorists.
  c. gestalt psychologists.
  d. artificial intelligence researchers.