Christine is an obese 12-year-old. What is one prediction about her health as an adult that cannot be made?
a. She faces the possibility of developing diabetes.
b. There are no possible serious health risks that she will face in adulthood
c. She may have high cholesterol.
d. She may have high blood pressure.
B
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According to Bruner, discovery learning helps students become more independent problem solvers because they
a. obtain reinforcement for remembering factual information. b. relate ideas to each other and to their existing knowledge. c. designate cues for the storage and retrieval of information learned. d. learn to solve problems by observing the behavior of attractive models.
In each of the situations below, a student's behavior is affected by one of the following phenomena: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, vicarious reinforcement, or vicarious punishment
For each situation: (1) identify which one of the phenomena just listed is affecting the student's behavior, and (2) explain why you made the choice you did. a. Because John was caught cheating on an exam, he was removed from the basketball team. John has stopped cheating on exams. b. Mary sees her friend Judy get special privileges when she talks very sweetly to the teacher. As a result, Mary begins to sweet-talk the teacher as well. c. Ralph brings his science project in a week late. The only reason he did his project at all is because he wanted his mother to stop nagging him about it.
Which one of the following best reflects technology-based collaborative learning as the textbook describes it?
a. Students share their work on a classroom data base, give one another feedback, and build on one another's ideas. b. Working in small cooperative groups, students use word-processing software to create a class newsletter, short story, or other significant piece of writing. c. Students use Facebook to locate age-mates across the nation who might like to explore a topic of mutual interest. d. Students learn a simple computer programming language and then, working in pairs, create computer games that can help them acquire automaticity for basic math facts.
Of the following, private speech is most likely to increase when:
a. the learner is bored.
b. the learner feels isolated.
c. the learner is confident.
d. the learner is challenged.