Ramon forms his concept of house after seeing numerous single-story houses in his small, ...

Ramon forms his concept of house after seeing numerous single-story houses in his small, middle-income town in Illinois. He is then shown pictures of an igloo in northern Canada, a mansion in Illinois, a single-story house in Mississippi, and a high-rise apartment building in New York City. Based on a prototype theory of concepts, which one is he most likely to identify as being a house?
 
  a. The igloo
  b. The mansion
  c. The single-story house
  d. The high-rise apartment building

Ques. 2

Three of the following examples are consistent with how epistemic beliefs typically change as learners grow older. Which one is not consistent with typical developmental trends in epistemic beliefs?
 
  a. Anna used to think that studying history involved memorizing factsnames, dates, places, etc. She now believes that studying history involves learning interrelationships among historical eventshow one event led to another, and so on.
  b. Beatrice used to think that scientists might have different but possibly equally valid views of how the world operates. She now believes that there is probably only one correct explanationone that scientists will eventually determine.
  c. Charmaine used to think that if she was going to learn a particular mathematical concept, she would learn it either quickly or not at all. She now believes that her understanding of particularly difficult math concepts may evolve slowly over time and require considerable effort on her part.
  d. Delores used to think that people were naturally either good at or not good at learning a foreign language. She now believes that successful learning results more from persistence and hard work.

Ques. 3

As children develop, their metacognitive knowledge changes in a number of ways. Which one of the following is a false statement about how metacognition changes with development?
 
  a. Children sometimes use effective strategies unconsciously before they begin to use them consciously and intentionally.
  b. Older children engage in more comprehension monitoring than younger children.
  c. Younger children are more aware of their own thought processes than older children are.
  d. Children become increasingly adept at using rehearsal to remember something.

Ques. 4

Learners' epistemic beliefs can best be described as learners' views about:
 
  a. What instructional techniques are most likely to help them learn classroom material
  b. How researchers develop theories from the data they collect
  c. How long they are likely to remember the things that they learn in school
  d. The nature of knowledge and how it is acquired

Ques. 5

Considering trends in metacognitive development, only one of the following statements is accurate. Which one?
 
  a. Learners of all ages generally know the things they know and the things they don't.
  b. Elementary students have a better sense of what they do and don't know than high school students do.
  c. Students tend to know a great many things that they don't realize they know.
  d. Students across the K-12 grade span often think they know things that they really don't know.

Ques. 6

To remember that the capital of Maine is Augusta, Bart pictures a lion with a gust of wind blowing through its mane. Bart's technique illustrates:
 
  a. the keyword method
  b. verbal mediation
  c. the method of loci
  d. an external retrieval cue

Ques. 7

When students are reading a textbook, their comprehension monitoring is most effective if it occurs:
 
  a. Before they read a passage
  b. Immediately after they've read a passage
  c. Several minutes or hours after they've read a passage
  d. Both immediately after they've read a passage and also at some later time

Ques. 8

As a teacher, you are concerned that many of your students are learning less than they think they're learning as they read their textbooks. Your best strategy would be to:
 
  a. Have them underline or highlight at least 50 of what they read
  b. Instruct them to read the book two or three times instead of only once
  c. Suggest questions that they can ask themselves as they read
  d. Copy difficult-to-understand sentences in their notebooks

Ques. 9

When Mary thinks about what a dog is, several very different-looking animals come to mind, including greyhounds, German shepherds, cocker spaniels, and Chihuahuas. Which one of the following views of concept learning best characterizes Mary's knowledge of the concept dog?
 
  a. Learning correlational features
  b. Prototype
  c. Exemplars
  d. Hypothesis testing