Exam 6: Learning and Cognitive Processes

Students in a fifth grade classroom are studying dinosaurs.With the three conditions for meaningful learning in mind, choose the student who is most likely to engage in meaningful learning.

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Which one of the following statements best characterizes the duration of the sensory register?

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Describe what psychologists mean when they say that attention and working memory have a limited capacity.Discuss an implication of this limited capacity for student learning.

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People can only attend to and process a small amount of information, and thus can only deal with one complex task, at any one time.This limited processing capacity has several possible implications (the response needs to mention only one of these):
Keep students' attention focused on the task at hand.
Capture students' attention by making subject matter interesting, exciting, puzzling, etc.
Minimize distractions that take students' attention away from their schoolwork.
Pace instruction so that students receive only so much new information at once-so that the capacity of their working memories are not exceeded.
Do not ask students to solve complex problems entirely in their heads.
Promote automaticity of basic skills that students will use in more complex activities.

Which one of the following statements is consistent with the recommendations in the textbook for promoting retrieval?

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Question 4

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

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Question 5

Mr.Wagner stands in front of the class explaining the process of evolution.Jessie is sitting in the front row, but her mind is on the fight she had with her best friend just before class.Based on this information, how far in Jessie's memory system did Mr.Wagner's lecture get?

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Mr.Martinez wants his first grade students to be able to identify 200 reading words at the level of automaticity.Which one of the following techniques will best help his students achieve that goal?

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What are the two reported benefits to students learning in relation to teacher wait time?

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Question 8

As his teacher reads a story, Wesley pictures the main characters the way he thinks they must look.By forming visual images based on the verbal descriptions his teacher reads, Wesley is ______ those descriptions.

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Question 9

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?

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Question 10

Which one of the following teaching strategies best reflects the perspective of cognitive psychology?

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Question 11

Which one of the following best reflects the use of the sensory register component of memory?

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Question 12

Successful retrieval of information from long-term memory depends on three of the following factors.Retrieval does not depend on:

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Question 13

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

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Question 14

In relation to our current knowledge about the neuropsychology of learning, teachers should:

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Question 15

What is a mental process whereby a learner takes disparate pieces of information to build understanding?

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Question 16

As Jane reads about Louis Riel's resistance against the government, she pictures him as he must have looked, with dark hair and a full mustache, standing tall and proud as he defended himself at his trial.Considering research findings regarding the effectiveness of visual imagery, we can predict that Jane will:

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Question 17

Three of these teachers will probably promote meaningful learning in their students.Which one is unlikely to do so?

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Question 18

Nicole learns the formula "E = mc2" by repeating it to herself over and over again.Which one of the following processes is Nicole most clearly demonstrating?

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Question 19

Four students are storing this fact: "Mount Royal in Montreal was named by Jacques Cartier in 1535." Based on the following information, which student is probably going to have the most difficult time retrieving the information from long-term memory a few days later?

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Students in a fifth grade classroom are studying dinosaurs.With the three conditions for meaningful learning in mind, choose the student who is most likely to engage in meaningful learning.

Which one of the following statements best characterizes the duration of the sensory register?

Describe what psychologists mean when they say that attention and working memory have a limited capacity.Discuss an implication of this limited capacity for student learning.

Which one of the following statements is consistent with the recommendations in the textbook for promoting retrieval?

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

Mr.Wagner stands in front of the class explaining the process of evolution.Jessie is sitting in the front row, but her mind is on the fight she had with her best friend just before class.Based on this information, how far in Jessie's memory system did Mr.Wagner's lecture get?

Mr.Martinez wants his first grade students to be able to identify 200 reading words at the level of automaticity.Which one of the following techniques will best help his students achieve that goal?

What are the two reported benefits to students learning in relation to teacher wait time?

As his teacher reads a story, Wesley pictures the main characters the way he thinks they must look.By forming visual images based on the verbal descriptions his teacher reads, Wesley is ______ those descriptions.

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?

Which one of the following teaching strategies best reflects the perspective of cognitive psychology?

Which one of the following best reflects the use of the sensory register component of memory?

Successful retrieval of information from long-term memory depends on three of the following factors.Retrieval does not depend on:

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

In relation to our current knowledge about the neuropsychology of learning, teachers should:

What is a mental process whereby a learner takes disparate pieces of information to build understanding?

Three of these teachers will probably promote meaningful learning in their students.Which one is unlikely to do so?

Nicole learns the formula "E = mc2" by repeating it to herself over and over again.Which one of the following processes is Nicole most clearly demonstrating?

Four students are storing this fact: "Mount Royal in Montreal was named by Jacques Cartier in 1535." Based on the following information, which student is probably going to have the most difficult time retrieving the information from long-term memory a few days later?

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Individual and Group Differences

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Creating and Maintaining a Productive Classroom Environment

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Describing Relationships with Correlation Coefficients

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