EPC 420 - Educational Psychology of Adolescence » Spring 2023 » Quiz 7 Slavin Ch 6- Cognitive Theories of Learning

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Question #1
The cognitive theory of learning that describes how individuals take in, work with, store, and retrieve information about the world is called:
A.   dual code.
B.   behaviorism.
C.   serial learning.
D.   information processing.
Question #2
Schemata consist of:
A.   strategies or game plans for solving problems.
B.   recall strategies through which episodic memory is accessed.
C.   whatever information we are conscious of at a given moment.
D.   frameworks for organizing ideas in memory.
Question #3
How can teachers help their students to develop automaticity?
A.   Draw on multiple memory components rather than on selected components only.
B.   Integrate motor skills with cognitive skills in learning new material.
C.   Make some parts of a task more noticeable so that they stand out.
D.   Be sure that certain parts of a task are practiced until they become second nature, so that more concentration can be given to other parts.
Question #4
A student uses the term ROY G BIV to remember the colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. What type of memory strategy is this?
A.   Rhyming
B.   Initial-letter
C.   Loci
D.   Pegword
Question #5
Initial-letter strategies include:
A.   acronyms.
B.   locations.
C.   imagery.
D.   keywords.
Question #6
Rote learning can be characterized as:
A.   involving innate knowledge.
B.   relating new material to existing knowledge.
C.   involving arbitrary associations.
D.   underused in the traditional classroom.
Question #7
Which of the following statements about attention is accurate?
A.   Attention is a limited resource.
B.   Attention is the mental repetition of information.
C.   One way to gain attention is to reduce emotional content of subject matter.
D.   Attention is the tendency to organize stored memories.
Question #8
This part of long-term memory is responsible for the storage of the ability and knowledge to do activities.
A.   Procedural memory
B.   Episodic memory
C.   Sensory registry
D.   Semantic memory
Question #9
The process of maintaining a thought in working memory is called:
A.   repository.
B.   elaboration.
C.   rehearsal.
D.   automaticity.
Question #10
A teacher tries to help a student recall an event that took place during a field trip to the natural history museum by saying, "Remember, it was the time when you went off to see the skeletons." Which memory component was most directly involved?
A.   Short-term memory
B.   Massed practice
C.   Episodic memory
D.   Semantic memory

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