1) Which one of the following strategies is most likely to promote self-regulation in
students?
a.Mr. Adams knows that many students have trouble learning algebra. He spends the
first few weeks of class having students engage in activities that will make algebraic
concepts concrete and understandable.
b.When assigning a lengthy research project, Mr. Barnett advises his students to break
the project down into a number of smaller tasks and then to reinforce themselves after
they complete each one.
c.To build endurance, Mr. Carruthers asks his physical education students to run
progressively longer distances each week.
d.Mr. DAmato asks his students to look in a mirror and write a poem about what they
see.
2) Which one of the following statements best describes the notion of parallel
distributed processing?
a.Working memory and long-term memory are two components of the memory system
that, while occasionally interacting, often function independently of each other.
b.Working memory has several compartments, enabling a number of unrelated pieces of
information to be processed at the same time.
c.In some instances, information stored in the sensory register can move directly into
long-term memory.
d.A single piece of information is stored in numerous places in long-term memory, with
its retrieval and processing occurring at all locations simultaneously.
3) A biology teacher wants students to remember the various components of a cell
(nucleus, cytoplasm, cell membrane). Considering what research tells us about
long-term memory storage, the teacher would be well advised to help students encode
information about the cell:
a.Primarily in a visual form, because visual images usually remain vivid in memory for
a long period of time
b.Primarily in a verbal form, because language underlies much of human learning
c.In both visual and verbal forms, because multiple forms of encoding increase the
likelihood of retrieval
d.In a relatively unencoded form for a few days, to allow for greater flexibility in
encoding later on
4) Which one of the following situations best illustrates situated learning?
a.Twelve-year-old Andrew bakes often at home and can easily figure out how much
flour he needs when he cuts in half a cookie recipe that calls for 21/4 cups of flour. Yet
Andrew has trouble making similar calculations in his math class.
b.Ten-year-old Bernita wonders what it would be like to live on a farm rather than in
the city. As she sits in class, her mind often wanders to rural locations she has visited
only in her dreams.
c.Sixteen-year-old Calvin has trouble understanding the process of mitosis when his
biology teacher describes it in abstract terms. He finds mitosis much easier to
understand when, later, the teacher draws a diagram of the process on the chalkboard.
d.Four-year-old Danetta has trouble understanding that her friend Michael has moved to
a community more than a thousand miles away. She keeps insisting that Michael must
only be a short car ride away and throws a fit when her mother refuses to drive her to
Michaels house.
5) Thorndikes original law of effect described the ways in which the learning of a
response:
a.has an effect on other organisms
b.has an effect on stimuli in the environment
c.has an effect on other responses
d.is affected by the consequences of that response