Chapter 18

Both biological dev. & cultural experience affect children's ability to learn

Direct learning often requires either listening to teachers or reading

Which of these is one of Sternbergs 3 types of intelligences

Middle School helps child transition between elementary and high school

A student is taking a history class in which the teachers lectures & students take notes

Which of these is not a property of a well-designed standardized test?

When you describe a situation that might possibly happen, describing a hypothetical situation

At about 12 most preteens attention span becomes significantly longer

Piaget developed the theory that learning was multifaceted

Achievement tests are also called intelligence tests

According to Piaget, about age seven, children begin to understand abstract ideas,

At which of Piaget's 4 periods of learning are children able to classify objects

When a child is able to _objects, he is able to group them according to a specific characteris

The educator who was the first to strongly emphasize the importance of self-directed learning

Standardized test designed to measure how much a student has actually learned about a specific

Sternberg, a child who is able to draw & paint in

Piaget; analyzing a hypothetical situation

parents involved in their child's school, are sending child the message that school important

Vygotsky believed that children learn best from one another and from adults

Independent can prepare preteens for the kinds of tasks they will be expected to perform

__learning occurs when a student learns from another person of his or her own age

When a standardized test actually measures what it is supposed to measure, the test is said

Piaget: debate issues involving complex cultural problems

Another name for peer learning is independent learning

test that measures you talents