Explain the influence of perception on the formation of your sense of self.
What will be an ideal response?
Our sense of self is formed by our experiences, and our experiences are influenced by perception. Our perceptions are not necessarily the same as reality, so our sense of self may miss the mark.
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It is more important to teach skills rather than facts because:
a. research indicates skillful children do better in the later grades of school. b. increasing children's ability to cope increases their sense of self worth. c. schools already teach too many facts. d. children prefer learning how to do things rather than memorizing information.
Which one of the following best describes Piaget's concept of equilibration?
a. A child assimilates without accommodating. b. A child accommodates without assimilating. c. A child doesn't encounter any new or challenging ideas. d. A child revises existing schemes to incorporate new experiences.
Identify the phases of the Project Approach and briefly define each.
What will be an ideal response?
A researcher does a study examining the effects of a preschool program. He uses a nonequivalent comparison-group design. He finds that the cognitive growth of his experimental group is greater than that of his control. Unfortunately, he later finds that in general children who live in the area where he drew his experimental group tend to grow faster cognitively than children who were from the area where he drew his control group. When he discovered this problem, he discovered what threat to the internal validity of his study?
a. Selection-maturation effect b. History effect c. Selection-instrumentation effect d. Testing effect