Chapter 9 Quiz

An important teaching goal is to help students master the main concepts in a subject rather than just memorize facts.

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One strategy for helping students form concepts is to encourage them to develop hierarchical arrangements of a concept's characteristics.

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• False

In promoting concept formation, teachers should ask students to categorize concepts, explain their categorization, or have them generate their own examples of the concept.

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• False

Inductive reasoning involves reasoning from the general to the specific.

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Adolescents are more skillful at many aspects of inductive reasoning than are children, including analogies, but not as good as young adults.

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In the context of mindtools proposed by David Jonassen, semantic organization tools such as databases and concept mapping tools help students organize, analyze, and visualize information they are studying.

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Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for and use information that supports our ideas rather than refutes them.

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The dual-process model emphasizes that it is the experiential system—monitoring and managing actual experiences—that benefits adolescents’ decision making, not the analytical system.

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Creative thinking is directly correlated to intelligence.

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• False

Teachers can safely assume that students who show creative thinking skills in mathematics will also exhibit these skills in language and art.

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• False