#7 Learning and the Classroom Environment (16q)

Which of these is not a way for caregivers to encourage learning?

• give the child time and attention

• learn about child development

• read to the child

• have the child watch educational videos

When a toddler washes his bike after watching Dad wash the car, he is learning through:

• imitation

• directed learning

• trial and error learning

• incidental learning

When a toddler tries to do something several times before being successful, he is learning through...

• imitation

• directed learning

• trial and error learning

• incidental learning

What is incidental learning?

• it is unplanned

• it is the most common type of learning that takes place in school

• it occurs when the child copies the behavior of another person

• all of the above

Sierra has learned to be gentle with the family dog because she sees her mother treating the dog with kindness. What learning method is this?

• touch

• imitation

• verbal

• all of the above

When a child cannot focus on a specific task and block out other sensory information, what intellectual activity area is lacking?

• attention

• memory

• perception

Perception is...

• special types of neurons that provide for short-term memory

• misconceptions held by young people

• information learned by trial and error

• information received through the senses

What area of Piaget's theory is perception most linked to?

• concrete

• sensorimotor

• formal

• preoperational

Which area of intellectual activity is not required for a game of checkers?

• memory

• attention

• reasoning

• curiosity

What area of intellectual activity is present in infants?

• reasoning

• imagination

• perception

• all of the above