The Flynn effect is: (Multiple Choice)

The Flynn effect is:
 
  a. people learn better when they are cognitively active than when they are behaviorally active
  b. school achievement test scores are higher in urban areas than in rural areas
  c. problem solving performance is better when people work in groups rather than as individuals
  d. IQ scores have been rising for most of the 20th century in every country for whichdata is available

Ques. 2

Successful negotiation requires finding out what the other person really wants and needs and
 
  a. Showing how your own wants and needs are more important
  b. Showing a way for both of you to get what you want
  c. Finding a way in which you both compromise equally
  d. Focusing on short-term goals

Ques. 3

Azavedo and Cromley developed a pre-training lesson designed to teach students how to use generative learning strategies in a hypermedia environment. Results on a learning lesson showed:
 
  a. strategy-trained learners were no more likely than non-trained learners to use the generative learning strategies
  b. strategy-trained learners could recall more basic facts than the non-trained learners
  c. strategy-trained learners and non-trained learners had similar performance on a transfer test
  d. all of the above

Ques. 4

According to research by Slotte and Lonka, which type of note taking is likely to produce the best performance on tests of defining key concepts, comparing several different ideas, and evaluating the author's views?
 
  a. writing a summary
  b. writing verbatim words and phrases
  c. both should be equally helpful
  d. writing verbatim words and phrases should be particularly helpful for defining key concepts

Ques. 5

In a mathematics class, a student is asked so solve the problem: 3 + 2 = ___. The teacher observes the student holding out three fingers out while saying 3 and then counting out the numbers, 4, 5. What method is the student using?
 
  a. counting on
  b. counting all
  c. derived facts
  d. known facts

Ques. 6

Roger is negotiating a conflict with his best friend. In describing what he wants, he should
 
  a. Begin by forcefully demanding what he wants so his friend knows he's serious
  b. Keep many of his wants to himself so that he can bring them up later as a negotiation strategy
  c. Describe what he wants and needs as clearly as possible so his friend has as much information as possible
  d. Explain that how he has gotten his way in the past, he should do so this time as well

Ques. 7

In describing what you want, you should do all EXCEPT
 
  a. Make a person I, me, or mine statement
  b. Specifically describe your wants and needs
  c. Focus on a long-term win for yourself
  d. Describe how the other person's actions are part of the problem

Ques. 8

Cook and Mayer taught some students how to outline passages based on prose structures such as compare/contrast (trained group) and provided no training to others (control group). The trained group showed a greater pretest-to-posttest gain than the control on:
 
  a. problem solving transfer
  b. recall of low-level information
  c. both of the above
  d. none of the above

Ques. 9

The feelings that you experience determine how you will express them.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Ques. 10

Which of the following is not a characteristic of learning strategies:
 
  a. provided by the teacher
  b. intended to improve learning
  c. occurs during learning
  d. involves intentional cognitive processing by the learner