Exam 7: Knowledge Construction

Mr.Janus tells his class, "For tomorrow's class, read pages 23 to 49 in your geography book." Three of the following students are demonstrating the process of construction in their perceptions of what their teacher has said.Which student is not?

Morris is trying to remember how to spell the word broccoli.He retrieves the first three letters B R O)and the last three O L I), then assumes that the "kuh" sound in the middle of the word must be a K.He writes "brokoli" on his paper.Morris' process of remembering how to spell the word in this case, incorrectly)illustrates which one of the following concepts?

Three of the following teaching strategies should help students acquire useful theories about phenomena in the natural world.Which strategy is least likely to be effective in fostering students' theory development?

People's interpretations of a new event are most likely to be influenced by their own expectations when the event is:

Students' misconceptions about the world may come from a variety of sources.Which one of the following is not a likely source that theorists have identified?

From the perspective of knowledge construction, three of the following are possible reasons why classroom dialogues help students better understand classroom subject matter.Which one is not necessarily a benefit of classroom dialogues?

Each of the teachers below has students with misconceptions about the material they are studying.Three of the teachers are using strategies that should help their students correct these misconceptions.Which teacher is not using an effective strategy for changing misconceptions?

Which one of the following best illustrates a worldview at work?

Which one of the following examples best illustrates the use of a personally constructed theory as a child learns the concept spider?

Wendy sees a picture of a beach and then later tries to draw the picture from memory.She draws shells on the beach even though the beach in the picture had no shells.Using cognitive psychologists' concept of schema, how could we explain Wendy's error?

Three of the following statements reflect cognitive psychologists' beliefs about the process of knowledge construction.Which statement is not consistent with their beliefs?

The textbook describes a study by Bartlett in which college students in England read a Native American ghost story entitled "The War of the Ghosts." From Bartlett's results, we can conclude that students who read a story written from the perspective of a culture different from their own are likely to:

Which one of the following situations illustrates the phenomenon of overgeneralization in concept learning? In each case, the concept in question is in italics.

Ms.Rushing, a middle school science teacher, wants her students to develop a good understanding of principles related to the concepts of force and velocity.Three of the following strategies should help her students construct such an understanding.Which strategy would educational psychologists be least likely to advocate for promoting effective knowledge construction related to force and velocity?

Which one of the following examples best illustrates the concept of distributed cognition?

Which one of the following scenarios best reflects the basic idea of social constructivism?