WorksheetsPsych 356 Midterm Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 39mins
According to Stanovich (2015), something that interferes with rational thinking is the tendency to reason from an egocentric perspective. This is called:
Dysrationalia
Myside bias
Cognitive miser
Mindware gap
Stanovich (2015) suggests that intelligence is not the only thing that plays a role in cognitive reasoning. He coined this term to explain decision-making unrelated to intelligence:
Myside bias
Critical thinking
Cognitive miser
Dysrationalia
Halpbern (2006) would agree with which of the following statements about critical thinking?
The best way to assess critical thinking is sequentially, allowing for open-ended responses and forced choice.
Critical thinking cannot be taught effectively in schools.
Only the best teachers can teach critical thinking skills.
Teaching to support critical thinking and teaching to enhance transfer have opposing aims.
Critical thinking (Halpbern, 2006) includes all of the following, except:
Metacognition
Reflection
Making inferences
Generating lists
Gathercole (2011) indicates that at least 10% of children have this problem, which sometimes is reflected by poor attention in the classroom:
Mind wandering
Working memory
Storage problem
Retrieval problem
Duke et al. (2012) identifies all of the following strategies for teaching reading comprehension, except:
Reciprocal teaching
Teach text structure
Integrate reading and writing
Differentiate instruction
In class, we discussed the “reading wars,” (Rayner et al., 2002) a debate between the use of these two approaches to reading instruction:
Phonics and whole-language
Behaviorism and teacher-centered
Constructivism and social learning
Whole-word and whole-language
When learning to read, the awareness of the fact that some letter(s) may sound differently in different words is known as:
Narrative skills
Phonemic awareness
Automaticity
Decoding
Early literacy development is contingent on understanding all of the following except:
Concept of print
Phonemic awareness
Self-regulation
Vocabulary
One way of teaching early literacy skills includes summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting (Palincsar & Brown, 1984). This method was called:
Reciprocal teaching
Constructivist teaching
Rote teaching
Collaborative teaching
According to Newcombe et al. (2009), this subject focuses more on understanding the process of developing knowledge rather than on content:
Math
Social Studies
Literacy and language
Science
This is the ability to extend what has been learned to new contexts (Bransford et al., 2000):
Expertise
Transfer
Working memory
Performance
Bjork and Bjork (2010) distinguish between learning and performance. The authors described several strategies (e.g., interleaved practice) to enhance long-term learning. Collectively, these strategies were called:
Blocking
Storage cues
Desirable difficulties
Testing effects
Students with math anxiety often report using minimally effective study strategies (e.g., re-reading notes, looking over problems). What makes these strategies ineffective?
They're solving new, but similar problems.
They're not spaced out enough.
You need sleep in order for them to be effective.
They don't support encoding processes.
Kohlberg (1975) delineated three stages of moral development (i.e., preconventional, conventional, and postconventional). The ability to advance to new stages is contingent on:
Development of logical reasoning
Development of phonological awareness
The transfer of learned knowledge
The level of one's IQ
A method of teaching centered around the idea that “knowing that you don’t know something” is still valuable. There is an emphasis on asking questions not getting answers:
Constructivist approach
Socratic method
Critical thinking
Behaviorism
This educational scholar wanted to focus on the “whole child” in schools and promoted learning by doing:
Lawrence Kohlberg
George Polya
John Dewey
Jean Piaget
Which method of note-taking during class was associated with improved test performance when tested on ideas?
Typing notes
Handwriting notes
Verbatim notes
Audio-recording notes
In lecture, Dr. Cortina discussed brain development. One thing important to brain development is the elimination of synaptic connections to increase efficiency. This is called:
Synaptic pruning
Synaptic density
De-lateralization
Cognitive aging
Which of the following is the best way to practice retrieval?
Studying the material
Testing oneself on the material
Rereading the material
Alternating between studying and testing
