Which of the following best describes Ebbinghaus’s curve of forgetting?
a. The percent remembered declines slowly and steadily.
b. The percent remembered drops sharply then levels out.
c. The percent remembered remains steady for many days after learning.
d. The percent remembered increases over time.
B
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a. perceptual closure. b. shape constancy. c. ambiguous stimuli. d. retinal disparity.
Based on peer nominations, which of the following types of children have an average number of both positive and negative nominations?
a. rejected children c. controversial children b. children of average status d. neglected children
Sam was helping his mother make homemade pizzas for dinner. His mother took the pizza dough out of the can and rolled it out into two separate pizza crusts. Which of the following responses indicates that Sam has not yet grasped the concept of conservation?
A. "Mom, we have so much more dough now that it is not in the can." B. "Mom, I want to use all of the dough to make one big pizza." C. "Mom, can we make something else with the extra dough?" D. "Mom, don't put mushrooms on the pizza because we do not like them."
Proponents of _______________ believe that reading should be taught by presenting the basic skills that underlie reading
a) metamemory b) transference c) code-based approaches to reading d) whole-language approaches to reading