Chapter 7/8

Researchers have found that self-regulatory learners also often have which of the following traits?

Are high-achieving

Which of the following best characterizes the duration of the sensory memory?

Brief instant

Which of the following is NOT a teaching strategy for helping students pay attention?

Do not use instructional comments.

Which of the following researchers is considered the primary architect of operant conditioning?

F. Skinner

A 5-year-old child and a 15-year-old adolescent can process information at the same speed and in the same capacity.

False

Self-regulatory learning consists of imposing external factors to control the student's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

False

Which of the following statements best describes a prompt?

It is a cue, given just before a desired response, to increase the likelihood of the desired response.

Metacognitive strategies are best described as methods to encourage students to do which of the following?

Know about knowing

Time-out is best described as an example of which of the following?

Removal of desired stimuli

Which of the following is a good note-taking strategy?

Summarizing, concept maps, and outlining.

Which of the following scenarios best depicts systematic desensitization?

Susan has learned to relax when she gets on an airplane because she practices relaxation techniques regularly before each flight.

Which theory states that individuals forget information not because we actually lose memories from storage, but rather because other information gets in the way of what we are trying to remember?

The interference theory

William is trying to remember his new nine-digit Social Security number, and he does so by thinking of it as three groups of three digits each. William is demonstrating which of the following?

The use of chunking

Attention is the focusing of mental resources.

True

Dejohn is a high-achieving student who is also a self-regulatory learner. Dejohn most likely sets specific learning goals and uses more learning strategies as compared to his low-achieving peers.

True

Learning involves a relatively permanent influence on behavior, which comes about through experience.

True

Some cognitive theorists point out that the approaches (of social cognitive approaches) still focus too much on overt behavior and external factors and not enough on the details of how cognitive processes such as thinking, memory, and problem solving actually take place.

True

The cognitive information-processing approach emphasizes that children manipulate information, monitor it, and strategize about it.

True

Being an expert in a particular domain does not mean that the expert is good at helping others learn it. Indeed, "expertise can sometimes ____________ teaching because many experts forget what is easy and what is difficult for students."

hurt