When students summarize material they are studying, they learn it more thoroughly. Which one of ...

When students summarize material they are studying, they learn it more thoroughly. Which one of these students is most effectively summarizing?
 
  a. Jerry writes down the important ideas and identifies relationships among them.
  b. Laura writes down everything she can remember from the lesson.
  c. Nora writes each main point on a separate index card and then jots down all the details she can remember about each one.
  d. Phyllis lists the general themes of a lesson in five or six words.

Ques. 2

Note taking has a number of beneficial effects on learning and retention of information. Which one of the following is not an effect of note taking?
 
  a. It promotes verbal encoding of the material being heard or read.
  b. It promotes visual encoding of the material being heard or read.
  c. It provides retrieval cues for later recall of information.
  d. It decreases the degree to which elaboration is necessary.

Ques. 3

Concept maps, whether constructed by students or teachers, have several advantages. Which one of the following is not necessarily an advantage of concept maps?
 
  a. They help students learn classroom material more meaningfully.
  b. They help teachers identify misconceptions that students may have about the material.
  c. They provide a means through which students can visually as well as verbally encode relationships among ideas.
  d. They encourage cooperative learning because they can be constructed only when two or more students work together.

Ques. 4

Maps, matrixes, and historical time lines all help students learn by facilitating:
 
  a. Use of mnemonics
  b. Rote learning
  c. Organization
  d. Self-regulated learning

Ques. 5

In her first trip to a zoo, 7-year-old Latisha notices that leopards have paws very similar in shape to her cat Snowball's paws. She also notices that leopards walk in much the same way that Snowball does. Latisha starts to wonder if perhaps leopards are cats. Latisha's thinking illustrates Piaget's idea that thought is characterized by:
 
  a. egocentrism
  b. conservation
  c. use of schemes
  d. compartmentalization

Ques. 6

Which one of the following statements best describes Piaget's view of how children acquire knowledge about the world?
 
  a. Children are naturally disposed to think about their environment in particular ways; in a sense, some basic knowledge about the world is pre-wired.
  b. Children actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the environment.
  c. Children repeatedly parrot their parents' and teachers' beliefs, eventually internalizing these beliefs as their own knowledge.
  d. Initially, children unconsciously develop a rather complex and confused view of the world, but this view becomes simpler and more straightforward as time goes on.