What rationale does Vygotsky provide to explain how very young children are able to discriminate between pretending and reality?
a. Adults in children's lives are able to act as more competent others, drawing them away from pretend play into daily routines of reality.
b. Since young children explore the world through their senses, children know that reality involves more of the senses than pretending.
c. As children truly understand how an object works, they can imagine it in an altered state as a pretend item.
d. Very young children are unable to discriminate between pretending and reality.
c. As children truly understand how an object works, they can imagine it in an altered state as a pretend item.
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a. Assimilation b. Accommodation c. Equilibration d. Disequilibrium
Based on what you know about critical thinking, which of the following students seems to be thinking critically?
a. Grace presented her dogmatic opinion about the value of the research and the conclusions of the study. b. After the tennis match, Reid asked the line judge why she called the ball out when it was in. c. Emma evaluated the writer's argument and recognized the false assumption the writer was making. d. In chemistry class, Gil drew conclusions before finishing his experiment with the two substances.
Rhythm can be described as the flow of language. The best way to help children detect poetic rhythm is
a. through a read-aloud of rhyming poetry. b. by introducing spelling lists with a repetitive spelling pattern. c. through silent reading of a favorite poem. d. by teaching children about alliterations.
On IQ tests with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (e.g. The Wechsler Scales) which of the following scores would be in the Superior range
a. 95 b. 105 c. 115 d. 125