The four statements below describe effects that motivation may have on cognition and/or behavior. Three of the statements are accurate. Which one is not necessarily accurate?
a. Motivation influences how information is mentally processed.
b. Motivation enhances memory for information irrelevant to the task at hand.
c. Motivation increases task persistence.
d. Motivation influences the choices that people make.
b
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When a teacher's behavior is consistent with that expected of the children, the teacher is using a facilitating behavior known as
(a) modeling (b) clarifying (c) structuring (d) data acquisition
"Children will come to have certain feelings if they are inadvertently rude, fail an examination, upset a friend, or in some other way do not measure up to their own expectations of others." Elkin, 1989, p 1
A. unintentional socialization B. motivations C. intentional socialization
Tomlinson's framework for differentiating instruction includes three elements: content, process, and ________
A) subject matter B) procedure C) product D) method
Nine-year-old Polina is an English learner who has enrolled in a third grade class in New York City. To help Polina acquire academic vocabulary, her teacher should provide:
a) after school activities b) explicit instruction c) worksheets as homework practice d) materials in Polina's native language