Educational Psychology Chapter 8

Which of the following questions does not reflect a cognitive information processing approach?

• How do children get information into memory, store it, and retrieve it?

• How can teachers help children improve their memory and study strategies?

• How do environmental factors influence the age at which a child learns to crawl?

• What are the best strategies for helping children become better problem solvers?

. Which of the following scenarios best demonstrates automaticity?

• Margie knows that 3 times 4 equals 12 without even thinking about it.

• Jordan counts the number of apples in a basket.

• Kara practices how to print the alphabet.

• Harry uses his fingers to add 5 plus 4.

3. Emily is having difficulty studying for a spelling test. She can hear her brother's loud music in the other room as well as seeing that all of her friends are playing outside on the street. Emily is having difficulty with

• attention.

• deep processing.

• acclimation.

• encoding.

4. Giana and Sophia are doing their homework. Sophia can focus on reading her lesson from start to finish and then doing her end-of-the lesson activities without stopping. Giana on the other hand normally takes several breaks during the lesson, usually taps restlessly on the desk, and has to be reminded often not to play with her pencil, eraser, etc. as she often likes to balance them on her nose or try to stack them in various formations. Giana and Sophia are demonstrating differences in their

• sustained attention

• executive attention

• critical thinking skills

• memory

5.Which of the following scenarios presents the best example of encode?

• Tamara is playing dolls in her room.

• Brian is tickling his favorite stuffed toy.

• Joan remembers her first day of school

• Julie is listening to a new song.

6.Which of the following scenarios best depicts elaboration?

• José memorized a list of spelling words for a spelling bee.

• Kate and Sue worked together cutting letters for a poster.

• Taylor practiced writing the numbers and the alphabet.

• John thought about adding a larger variety to his vegetable garden when his class studied botany.

7.Which of the following examples best illustrates chunking?

• Georgia thinks of personal examples when learning about new concepts in science.

• Jodi classifies a list of animals she has to remember based on their common features.

• Adam uses symbols to represent words that he has difficulty spelling.

• Harold and Mohammed work together when designing a telescope.

8.According to the serial position effect, a student displaying primacy will most likely remember which words from a list?

• The shortest word(s)

• The longest word(s)

• The first word(s) and last words

• The words in the middle

Tanner's class is correcting sentences for grammar on the board. As Tanner is watching his classmate accurately change the punctuation of the sentence on the board, he consciously adapts and manages his thinking strategies dealing with grammar based on what he has just learned. Tanner is demonstrating

• talent.

• metacognitive activity.

• fluent retrieval.

• the keyword method.

10.According to the decay theory, which of the following is the cause of forgetting?

• Lack of schema

• Disintegration of memory traces

• Lack of initial encoding

• Interference by new information.