Week 11 Quiz

In Dataset D's conservation-of-liquid task, water is poured from a short, wide glass into a taller, thinner glass while the child watches, and the child is asked whether the amount is the same. Which response is typical of a child in Piaget's preoperational stage?

Select one.

• Says the amount is the same and explains that the water could be poured back
• Says the amount is the same but cannot give any reason
• Says the tall glass has more
• Refuses to compare the glasses because they are different shapes

In record R6 of the running case (illustrative), written at 7 years in an after-school program, water is poured from a short, wide glass into a tall, thin glass, and the child says it is the same because the water could be poured back into the first glass. Which concept does the child's reason show?

Select one.

• Reversibility, the logic Piaget placed in the concrete operational stage
• Seriation, the logic Piaget placed in the preoperational stage
• Class inclusion, the logic Piaget placed in the formal operational stage
• Egocentrism, the logic Piaget placed in the concrete operational stage

In Dataset D's class-inclusion task, a child is shown 7 dogs and 3 cats and asked, "Are there more dogs or more animals?" Comparing the dogs with all the animals, how much larger is the group of animals?

Select one.

• It is 4 larger, because the cats and dogs differ by that much
• It is larger by three animals, because 10 − 7 = 3
• It is the same size, because the dogs are the animals
• It is smaller, because there are more dogs than cats

A child in Piaget's preoperational stage is shown 7 dogs and 3 cats and asked whether there are more dogs or more animals, and the child replies, "More dogs." What is the child most likely comparing?

Select one.

• The dogs with all of the animals
• The animals with a group of animals not shown
• The dogs with the dogs from an earlier task
• The dogs with the cats

At an illustrative lunch table, a 9-year-old lines up four juice boxes from the smallest to the largest. Which concrete operational skill does this show?

Select one.

• Seriation
• Classification
• Class inclusion
• Conservation

During an illustrative card game, a 10-year-old keeps the last three cards played in mind for the rest of the turn. Which part of information processing is the child using?

Select one.

• Long-term memory, which holds information for a few seconds while it is used
• Processing speed, which stores the cards for days or years
• Working memory, which holds a few pieces of information for a few seconds while they are used
• Metacognition, which holds the cards in mind without any thinking

In an illustrative classroom game, the leader says "freeze", and an 8-year-old stops running at once even though the child wants to keep going. Which part of executive function does stopping show?

Select one.

• Planning
• Switching
• Attention to the long-term memory of the game
• Inhibiting

A school flyer promises to sort children into visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learners and teach each child only in that style so the child learns more. Which statement matches the evidence reviewed by Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, and Bjork (2008)?

Select one.

• The review found strong evidence that matching teaching to a style improves learning
• The review found no adequate evidence that matching teaching to a preferred style improves learning
• The review found that only visual learners benefit from matched teaching
• The review found that preferences do not exist at all

True or false: Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, from Frames of Mind, is a settled scientific result with strong empirical support.

True or false.

• True
• False

A parent at an illustrative school conference asks what a child's IQ score means. Which description matches this course's definition?

Select one.

• A standardized score that compares the child's test performance with others of the same age
• A fixed amount of intelligence that will never change
• A measure of how much the child is worth to the school
• A count of how many separate intelligences the child has