Deck 12: The Cognitive Domain

Question 1

Which of the following is NOT true?

A) Oral language is increased when a child has a chatty mother.
B) The peak learning years for human beings appears to be between 4 and 10 years of age.
C) Pruning destroys synapses, resulting in a less efficient brain.
D) Poor nutrition and maternal drug use may result in problematic fetal brain development.

Answer 1

Pruning destroys synapses, resulting in a less efficient brain.

Question 2

Which approach is most likely to enhance children's ability to classify objects?

A) Tell the children to find all of the red ones.
B) Provide the materials that could be classified for the children to use on their own during free play.
C) Explain in detail what attributes are and how they vary, and quiz children about their comprehension of this instruction.
D) Ask children to sort materials and then tell you why they put certain things together.

Answer 2

Ask children to sort materials and then tell you why they put certain things together.

Question 3

Who believed that knowledge is not generated from within but that learning stimulates and leads development?

A) Lev Vygotsky
B) Robert Syler
C) Jean Piaget
D) Howard Gardner

Answer 3

Lev Vygotsky

Question 4

What is metacognition?

A) The process of brain growth periodization.
B) Societal rules, conventions, and viewpoints transmitted during the early elementary years.
C) Proficient strategies for monitoring your own thought processes.
D) Genius-level cognitive abilities.

Question 5

Pruning is a process in brain growth periodization. Which of the following is true?

A) It is where the brain develops new and powerful synapses.
B) It takes place most aggressively around the age of 10.
C) It is a process whereby brain function can be examined in a non-intrusive manner.
D) It requires that children be in enriched environments.

Question 6

The best definition of science is:

A) A process of finding out and a system for organizing and reporting discoveries.
B) The study of biology, zoology, and psychology.
C) The study of the life spans of living organisms
D) The process of learning the laws of anatomy, physiology, and biology.

Question 7

Ordering is the operation of which of the following?

A) Identifying common relations between objects.
B) Pairing on exact or identical attributes.
C) Seriating objects by attributes.
D) Categorizing on the basis of a primary attribute.

Question 8

Which of the following is true about debriefing with children after a science activity?

A) It helps them realize that science is a collection of well-known facts.
B) It encourages children to think creatively, divergently, and convergently in their problem solving.
C) It teaches children that science is bound by already documented laws, theories, and principles.
D) It guards against relying on their using intuitive feelings to solve problems.

Question 9

Which is not one of the 5 essential functions of inquiry?

A) Helps students "know how we know" in science.
B) Develops dispositions to use the skills, abilities, and habits of mind associated with science.
C) Develops an understanding of the nature of science.
D) Creates new facts about how to model observation.

Question 10

The teacher asks the children to sort the insect pictures in one pile and the spider pictures in another pile. This is an example of what cognitive operation?

A) Classification
B) One-to-one correspondence
C) Matching
D) Conservation

Question 11

Matching, patterning, and seriating are examples of which type of cognitive skills?

A) Focusing skills
B) Memory skills
C) Analyzing skills
D) Organizing skills

Question 12

Which of the following bridges children's informal knowledge with formal concepts?

A) Learning mathematical content and processes
B) Opportunities presented for real problem solving
C) Watching, listening, memorizing, and copying
D) Offering particular time slots in the day for mathematics

Question 13

In response to the teacher's request to tell her how many red blocks there are in a set of 40 colored blocks, Sam must use which of the following?

A) One-to-one correspondence
B) Cardinality
C) Subitizing
D) Conservation

Question 14

What is the best strategy to use when a teacher is providing for learning of physical knowledge?

A) Set up the materials and encourage exploration.
B) Give detailed information by telling children about physical knowledge.
C) Model the skill to be learned.
D) Have someone demonstrate an experiment and debrief.

Question 15

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) guidelines say that:

A) Rote memorization will allow broad application of numerical operations to a number of fields.
B) Rote memorization is obsolete.
C) Rote memorization helps children work through problems by applying the rules
D) Rote memorization must have well developed methodologies for improving children's memory strategies.

Question 16

Which of the following is true?

A) Some people are more "right brained" and some are more "left brained."
B) Listening to Mozart will make young children smarter.
C) There are brain differences by race.
D) Pruning is a way of making a brain more efficient.

Question 17

What is true about STEM education?

A) It should begin in the first grade in order to maximize its benefits and effectiveness.
B) It is currently controversial in terms of educational policy and public discourse.
C) It has proven to be more effective for boys than for girls.
D) It includes engineering for young children.

Question 18

Which of the following is an example of Socratic questioning?

A) "Which one of these answers is correct?"
B) "What is the name of that animal?"
C) "How do you know that?"
D) "Which of these dates comes first on a timeline?"

Question 19

When children think in a convergent manner:

A) They center on already-known facts.
B) They are able to think in many different directions about a problem.
C) They are thinking creatively.
D) They are thinking intuitively.

Question 20

Cardinality is:

A) The ability to recognize the number of a small group of objects without counting
B) Changing the order of operands in addition or multiplication without changing the outcome
C) Comparative terminology for subtraction and division
D) The last counting word named when counting a group of objects

Question 21

Name the four databases that are important in a child's developing cognition. Give a specific example from each one of what a child would have to know in order to differentiate between a spider and an insect.

Question 22

What are some crucial factors in terms of how you operate your classroom structure that will determine how well children learn to become critical thinkers and problems solvers?

Question 23

Describe some examples of the kind of knowledge that children must learn in the category "Social Conventional Knowledge" and why it cannot be taught in a constructivist manner.

Question 24

Explain how to handle a situation when children reach the wrong conclusion from a science experiment (ex. all the objects sank because they were big).

Question 25

Describe the steps involved in the process of inquiry or "doing science."

Question 26

Before children ever enter school, there are a number of factors that either enhance or deter their abilities to be successful learners. What are these? What ideas do you have about ways in which deterrents can be stemmed?

Question 27

In what ways can mathematics and science be integrated in the classroom? Provide examples and discuss why integration of these two subjects is important.

Question 28

Describe classroom practices that enhance or deter children's abilities to become independent thinkers and lifelong learners. Be specific.