Name the term that refers to Piaget’s sensory motor play (infancy to two years) in which infants explore the sensory qualities of objects and practice motor skills
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Practice play
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Stereotype threat refers to which of the following?
a. a desire to stereotype out-groups b. a feeling that your in-group is the target of discrimination c. a fear that one’s performance might confirm a negative stereotype of one’s group d. a desire to avoid stereotyping out-groups that makes one overcompensate by giving extra leeway to the out-group
The law of large numbers stipulates that
a. the greater the number of events that occur for a particular situation, the closer to the theoretical probability the results will be. b. the fewer the number of events that occur for a particular situation, the closer to the theoretical probability the results will be. c. the greater the number of events that occur for a particular situation, the farther away from the theoretical probability the results will be. d. the fewer the number of events that occur for a particular situation, the farther away from the theoretical probability the results will be.
Which of the following best describes the reasons why a teacher might use student self-assessments in mathematics?
a. Students tend to score highly on these assessments, building self-confidence. b. Self-assessments require writing, which is desirable to most students. c. Students can get in touch with how they learn and identify their weaknesses. d. Teachers can couple self-assessments with interview notes to determine grades. e. Administrators expect to see self-assessments in student portfolios.
Reading specialists know that
A. because of the importance of recall in study tasks with informational texts, students should be discouraged from using text look-backs. B. critical reading concepts, though important, are more difficult to grasp than other higher-level comprehension understandings and, thus, should be introduced after students have demonstrated adequate control of general comprehension tasks. C. metacognitive monitoring is a term that may be used synonymously with metacognitive planning. D. to help students read different types of content area material (e.g., social studies, science, math), different teaching strategies may be necessary because texts for different subject areas have different kinds of characteristics.