Six-year-old Seamus is learning addition and subtraction. No matter how much his mother explains it, Seamus does not understand division, however. Division would be at what part of Seamus' ZPD?
A) bottom
B) top
C) middle
D) not there at all
B) top The top boundary of the ZPD consists of problems that the child cannot solve, no matter how much support others may offer.
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Grandma Dot always remembered to send her grandchildren birthday cards and holiday cards, but rarely visited her grandchildren. Grandma Dot would be considered which of the following grandparent styles?
a. Formal b. Distant figure c. Reservoir of family wisdom d. Funseeker
Polina participates in a short-term memory experiment. The experimenter reads aloud a list of twenty objects, and Polina has to mentally rate how effective each object would be if she was stranded on a deserted island. The experimenter then asks her to count backwards by threes from one hundred. This task, known as ____, ensures that Polina does not rehearse the information to keep it in her
short-term memory.? a. ?motivated forgetting b. ?chunking c. ?the Brown-Peterson distractor technique d. ?the relearning method
Juanita usually teaches her math class by presenting factual information regarding the various math concepts, then she demonstrates these concepts in several problems, and lastly, she gives the students math problems to practice their new skills. Juanita's teaching style would be classified as __________
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