Exam 6: Learning and Cognitive Processes

Three of the following students' behaviors indicate that the students are paying attention.Which one does not necessarily show that students are paying attention?

Which one of the following alternatives best characterizes the process of elaboration of new information?

Which one of the following statements is most accurate regarding how learners often acquire procedural knowledge?

Considering developmental trends in long-term memory storage processes, choose the statement that best characterizes how kindergartners are apt to approach school learning tasks.

Randy knows more as a tenth grader than he did as a first grader.One result of this increased knowledge base is that Randy:

Which one of the following students definitely has a meaningful learning set?

Three of the following strategies should help students remember classroom subject matter over the long run.Considering guidelines presented in the textbook, which one will not help them?

Three of the following math teachers are using techniques that should help their students remember information.Which one is using a relatively ineffective technique?

Given what we know about the effects of retrieval cues on retrieval, in which one of the following situations are students most likely to recall how the word people is spelled?

Which one of the following statements most accurately describes behaviorists' view of how learning can best be studied?

Successful retrieval of information from long-term memory depends on three of the following factors.On which one does retrieval not depend?

According to the textbook, students often engage in rote learning rather than meaningful learning of school subject matter because:

Considering what cognitive psychologists tell us about attention, identify the pair of activities that most people would have trouble doing simultaneously.

Ms.Iwata has a long-term goal for her science students: to consider what they have learned about science as they deal with issues and problems in their daily lives.What teaching strategy will best help her students retrieve relevant scientific principles when they need them the most?

Only one of the following teaching practices is consistent with what we know about working memory.Which one is consistent?

Which one of the following statements best describes an activation model of memory?

Which one of the following best illustrates concept mapping?

Considering developmental trends in long-term memory storage processes, choose the statement that best characterizes how high school students are apt to approach school learning tasks.

A language arts teacher teaches her students the parts of speech nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)and wants her students to continue to remember them as they study English and foreign languages in the years to come.Considering the factors affecting retrieval of information from long-term memory, which one of the following strategies should maximize the likelihood that students will remember the different parts of speech over the long run?

Which one of the following statements best describes wait time and its effects?