Marissa seems to be a born leader. As president of the school service club, she can often persuade her classmates to get involved in school and community service activities. Given this information, we could conclude that Marissa has a strength in which one of Gardner's multiple intelligences?
A) Interpersonal
B) Spatial
C) Naturalistic
D) Bodily-kinesthetic
Ques. 2James is talking about how much better the world would be if everyone simply agreed to love one another and make peace, not war. In Piaget's view, James is most likely to be:
A) 4 years old.
B) 7 years old.
C) 10 years old.
D) 14 years old.
Ques. 3Which one of the following statements best characterizes the development of expertise in a particular subject area?
A) The development of expertise is characterized by the acquisition of more and better-integrated knowledge about a topic.
B) The development of expertise is characterized by a series of five stages of increasingly abstract problem-solving strategies.
C) Children develop expertise primarily by learning certain skills and then practicing them over and over until they can perform the skills almost without thinking.
D) Children develop expertise primarily by changing verbal information into complex visual images.
Ques. 4Seven-year-old Emma thinks that the expression Too many cooks spoil the broth is only about cooking soup. Her inability to recognize the more general meaning of the expression:
A) Suggests a possible intellectual disability.
B) Is typical for her age-group.
C) Reveals preoperational reasoning.
D) Indicates that instruction in such expressions would definitely be in her zone of proximal development.
Ques. 5Marcy is given her choice of two identical chocolate bars, one of which has been broken into four pieces. Marcy chooses the broken candy bar, believing that it has more candy. From Piaget's perspective, Marcy is showing a lack of ________, indicating that she has not yet completed the transition to the _________ stage of development.
A) proportional reasoning; concrete operations
B) proportional reasoning; formal operations
C) conservation; concrete operations
D) conservation; formal operations
Ques. 6Which one of the following reflects class inclusion?
A) Getting cows and horses confused
B) Identifying a shape as a square one day but as a triangle the next
C) Realizing that things that are cars can also be vehicles
D) Understanding that some behaviors that are perfectly acceptable at home are unacceptable at school
Ques. 7Which one of the following best describes Piaget's concept of equilibration?
A) A child assimilates without accommodating.
B) A child accommodates without assimilating.
C) A child doesn't encounter any new or challenging ideas.
D) A child revises existing schemes to incorporate new experiences.
Ques. 8From Vygotsky's perspective, what important role does inner speech play?
A) By giving ourselves a sequence of internal directions, we guide ourselves through complex tasks.
B) By mentally practicing various grammatical structures, we develop more complex language capabilities.
C) By internally speculating about what new words mean, we continue to increase the size of our vocabularies.
D) By talking to ourselves about what we should have done or said in a particular situation, we remember that situation more vividly.
Ques. 9Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles his basketball. His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget's concept of:
A) Concrete operations.
B) Accommodation.
C) Cognitive structure.
D) Assimilation.
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