Suppose that 7-year-old Anna is having trouble learning to read in school. Her teacher investigates how her family encourages reading, how her friends interact with her during play, and how she uses oral language to communicate
The teacher concludes that her reading will likely develop in its own time, and encourages Anna to continue to interact verbally. The teacher's approach would be very compatible with which of the following points of view?
a. the metacognitive viewpoint
b. the whole-language viewpoint
c. the preoperational viewpoint
d. the formal operational viewpoint
b
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Learning Objective 8.5
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A person suffering from anxiety predicts that he will make a fool of himself at a social gathering and, in fact, he does. A psychologist predicts that students in his morning class invariably outperform those in his afternoon class and, in fact, they do. What do the anxious person and the psychologist share in common?
A. they are both anxious B. they both fell prey to a self-fulfilling prophecy C. they both created bias in those who observe them D. both are very good at predicting behavior
The founder of artificial intelligence was:
a. Turing b. Hebb c. Searle d. Fetzer
Lewin believed that a person’s life space consisted of:
a. facts drawn from others b. interpersonal facts c. sociobiological facts d. both objectively real facts and imagined facts
By the time a child reaches the age of __________ he/she is able to use rehearsal techniques to improve his/her memory
a) six b) three c) ten d) twelve