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PSYC 2060 Chapter 8What is metacognition? At what age do children begin to understand perceptions, desires, and emotions? Tarik knows he must take careful notes while reading in order to remember important details about the characters and plot. He has learned that he must devote considerable attention to note-taking in order to perform well on the task. Tarik is most likely Mrs. Johnston is a creative writing teacher. She frequently guides students to ask themselves questions such as, "How can proofreading help me in writing a paper?" "How can outlining help me in writing a paper?" or "How can peer reviews help me in writing Which of the following activities would best encourage metacognition in students? Mrs. Berstein created an activity for her students, which consists of having to reflect on their own learning and knowledge so that students can be more attentive to the knowledge they possess. Which of the following activities is Mrs. Berstein encouragin Which of the following activities would be best for acquiring expertise? Which of the following activities would be recommended if someone wanted to be an expert? Which of the following is a characteristic of experts? Which of the following is the initial stage of expertise in a particular domain (such as English, biology, or mathematics)? A student in the initial stage of expertise in a particular domain
often does which of the following? Which of the following statements is true concerning expert knowledge? Which
of the following does not characterize a teacher with adaptive expertise? Which of the following is a strategy that an expert would use? Which of the following is not a strategy that experts would use? Which of the following is a good note-taking strategy? Which of the following is part of a good study system? Which of the following is not part of a good study system? Kai dreams of becoming a master pianist in the future, playing for orchestras and concert halls. When his mother reminds him to practice the piano, however, he produces an excuse and says that he'll practice later. Which of the following best describes Ka Mrs. Benson is considered one of the best math teachers at Lincoln Middle School. Her students say that she is good at helping them learn new concepts and that she gives them strategies for overcoming the difficulties they experience. They say she is a ch Joyce wants her students to better remember the information they read. Thus she decides to encourage them to briefly survey the material to get the overall organization of ideas, have them ask questions of themselves about the material, and tell them to b Mr. Farrell wants to increase his students' understanding of the material that they read. He has his students stop reading and ponder what they have read about and its meaningfulness, then he has them self-test to see if they can remember the material, an Which researcher proposed the working memory model, which views working memory as a workbench? Chunking is a beneficial strategy for improving memory that involves which of the following? Sensory memory lasts approximately how long? Short-term or "working" memory
is retained for approximately how long? According to which researcher(s), memory involves a sequence of three stages: sensory memory, working memory, and long-term memory? Which of the following statements best describes the nature of declarative memory? Semantic memory includes all of the following except which one? What is a schema? The serial position effect states that recall What is episodic memory? The interference theory states that which of the following circumstances causes individuals to forget information that has already been stored? The decay theory states that which of the following circumstances causes individuals to forget information that has already been stored? According to the decay theory, which of the following is the cause of forgetting? Which of the following scenarios presents the best example of encoding? Which of the following scenarios best depicts a student's declarative memory? Consider the following list of words that is read aloud to student volunteers: Cat, Dog, Hat, Goat, Boat, Boy, Girl, Plane, Sun, Moon. According to the serial position effect, a student displaying primacy will most likely remember which of the following w Which of the following scenarios best depicts elaboration? Which one of the following examples best describes thinking in working memory? When a stray dog wanders into a classroom,
all the students stop their seatwork and watch the teacher try to coax the dog from the room. In this example, why did the students stop their work? Which of the following best describes sensory memory? From the perspective of the Atkinson-Shriffin model of memory, why is attention so important? Marnie knows she must pass her English course to graduate, so she will not let what all the other students are doing affect her. This is an example of which of the following? Loreli's teacher introduces her to a new student named Jerome. Loreli immediately smiles and says, "Hello, Jerome, nice to meet you." A minute later, she wants to introduce Jerome to her friend Myla, but cannot remember his name. According to the Atkinson Travis's teacher is teaching his class about World War II. Travis is learning places, dates, and important events during the war. What type of
memory is this? Which of the following best characterizes the duration of the sensory memory? Knowledge about how to swim is most likely to be stored in long-term memory as which of the following? Trisha is trying to remember the sequential list of steps that will be on her final exam. What type of memory is Trisha trying to remember? Which one of the following reflects the typical duration of working (short-term) memory? Generally speaking, how does elaboration help students learn new information? Which of the following children is not attempting to store declarative knowledge in their
long-term memory? William is trying to remember his new nine-digit Social Security number, and he does so by thinking of it as three groups of three digits each. William is demonstrating which of the following? Kody loves to read. However, his
teacher tells him that he should read only what she assigns; otherwise his long-term memory (LTM) will fill up and there will not be any room left to store other things. In this scenario, is Kody's teacher accurate? Rhett is studying for his chemistry exam by repeating the information to himself over and over again. Rhett is demonstrating which of the following? Tony, who is 4 years older than Frank, is explaining the rules of a game to him. Frank is paying close attention, but Tony is talking fast and using words that Frank does not know. When Tony is finished explaining the directions, he asks Frank if he is re Fourteen-year-old Beverly and 10-year-old Ben are doing their homework. Beverly asks Ben if he minds if she turns on the radio while they work. Ben tells her he doesn't mind. Although Beverly can sing to the radio and do her homework at the same time, Ben Mrs. Clarke, a kindergarten teacher, is preparing for the beginning of the school year. She is putting up bright-colored paintings, drawings, and banners on the walls. She also has bright, plastic tablecloths on the tables and bright painted baskets with Which of the following is the best example of a student remembering information because of having received an effective retrieval cue? Which of the following is not a teaching strategy for helping students pay attention? All of the following strategies help children pay attention except which one? Isabella is listening to music while doing her homework. This is an example of which type of attention? According to research, preschool children's attention is positively related
to which of the following? All of the following questions reflect a cognitive information-processing approach, except which one? Metacognitive strategies are best described as methods to encourage students to do
which of the following? Behaviorism and its associative model of learning was a dominant force in psychology until many psychologists acknowledged that they could not explain children's learning without referring to mental processes such as memory and thinking. This shift in per The term "cognitive psychology" became a label for
approaches that sought to explain behavior by examining which of the following? The difficulty that students have in dividing their attention when they do two things at once can be attributed primarily to limits in which of the following? Development
of which of the following technologies was most important in stimulating the growth of cognitive psychology? An educational psychologist who studies how children process information through attention, memory, thinking, and other cognitive processes can best be described as following which of these cognitive approaches? Which of the following
scenarios best demonstrates automaticity? An example of a strategy intended to encourage metacognition is encouraging students to do which of the following? What is not an advantage of knowing some skills to a level of automaticity? Which one of the following statements best describes sensory register?Which of the following BEST describes the sensory register? It holds large quantities of information for less than a second. Which of the following BEST describes the short-term memory? It holds 5-9 items of information for 20-30 seconds.
Which one of the following best reflects the use of the sensory register?Which one of the following best reflects the use of the sensory register component of memory? You can remember something you heard for a second or two even though you weren't initially paying attention to it.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the difference between skilled readers and beginning readers in terms of their attention to what they read?Which one of the following most accurately describes the difference between skilled readers and beginning readers in terms of their attention to what they read? Skilled readers probably attend to fewer letters and words than beginning readers.
Which of the following statements best describes the notion of parallel distributed processing?Which one of the following statements best describes the notion of parallel distributed processing? A single piece of information is stored in numerous places in long-term memory, with its retrieval and processing occurring at all locations simultaneously.
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