According to research, which of the following is the most valid conclusion about social influences in our lives?
a. Because our chances of survival increase if we are socially connected, we have evolved as a species to become innately social beings.
b. People are not innately social beings, but they develop social characteristics if their parents encourage social connection and provide social experiences.
c. People who are born with extraverted personality traits need social connections, but people who are born with introverted personalities do not need social connection.
d. People in societies that have considerable social mobility become socially oriented beings, but people who live in societies with strong social stratification become more nearly solitary individuals.
Ques. 2With respect to social relationships and influences, which of the following statements best describes people?
a. People, in general, tend to be solitary creatures and interact with others primarily as a means of survival.
b. People, in general, tend to be social animals who enjoy interacting with, and being in the company of, others.
c. Low income people tend to be social, whereas wealthier people tend to prefer being alone unless their business contacts require interaction with others.
d. Members of cultural minorities tend to be social in nature, whereas members of non-minorities tend to prefer a more nearly solitary existence.
Ques. 3Learners' awareness of and their ability to control the strategies they use to remember information are best described as their:
a. metamemory.
b. cognition.
c. elaboration.
d. retrieval.
Ques. 4Learners' knowledge and control over mental processes, such as attention, communication, and memory are best described as their:
a. perception.
b. encoding.
c. learning.
d. metacognition.
Ques. 5Suppose you have taught your students about adjectives, and now you want to teach the students comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. (A dog is a larger animal than a cat. comparative form Of a mouse, cat, and dog, the dog is the largest. superlative form). You want to use the human memory model as a basis for your teaching. (1) Describe specifically use a specific example what you would do first in the lesson. (2) Describe specifically what you would do second in the lesson. Again, use a specific example or question. (3) Describe at least one strategy you could use to promote meaningful encoding in the lesson.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 6A health club advertises its telephone number as 2HEALTH rather than 243-2584 . Provide two reasons explaining why the health club would advertise the number in this way using the human memory model as a basis for your explanation.
What will be an ideal response?
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