The anecdote about the literacy program of a first-grade teacher illustrates how through conferencing with their teacher about their writing, children are provided a unique opportunity for the teacher to lead them to one of the following:
a. practice the precursors to literacy through drill on specific skills
b. practice phonemic awareness and letter formation
c. have something to show to their parents
d. become witnesses to their own literacy development
d
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Behaviorists believe that:
a. modeling behaviors you want students to copy is the best approach. b. positive and negative consequences cause behaviors to increase or decrease. c. behavioral characteristics are innate, and, therefore, impossible to change. d. only the threat of punishment works with students.
What brain area is most strongly implicated in a fear response?
a. ventral prefrontal cortex b. thalamus c. amygdala d. cerebellum
Which one of the following statements best describes Vygotsky's concept of internalization?
a. As children grow older, they develop an increasing ability to think about events in abstract rather than concrete terms. b. With age, children acquire more sophisticated problem-solving skills, largely because their parents and teachers give them increasingly challenging problems to tackle. c. Over time, children acquire more self-confidence about their ability to deal with the world. d. Through their social interactions with other people, children acquire ways of mentally approaching and thinking about a task.
In Piaget's theory, each time equilibration occurs