A student who is taking a course in educational psychology for the first time scans through the information- processing theory chapter and notes the word metacognition, which is unfamiliar. This student's selective focusing on the term metacognition is known as
a. retrieval.
b. elaborative rehearsal.
c. attention.
d. discriminant encoding.
c
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_____ are published less frequently than other book-length reference sources
a. Encyclopedias c. Dictionaries b. Handbooks d. Both a and c.
The dialect that is spoken more than any other in the United States is
a. Ebonics. b. Midwestern dialect. c. Southern dialect. d. Northeastern dialect.
The "halo effect" is best illustrated in which example?
a. There is little variation in the ratings made of individuals in a group. b. A disliked student is rated low on behavior but high on creativity. c. The extreme values on the scale re rarely used by the rater. d. All students in the class are rated high on every trait. e. A popular student is rated high on every trait.
Which of the following is not one of the categories included in Gardner’s list of intelligences?
a. problem-solving b. linguistic c. musical d. intrapersonal