Professor Martinez Wants to Know If Children Who Receive One-On-One

question 85

Multiple Choice

Professor Martinez wants to know if children who receive one-on-one instruction at school feel more self-confident than children who receive group instruction.To identify a causal relationship between type of instruction and self-confidence,Professor Martinez should

• A)compare the number of hours teachers spend on group instruction with the number of hours they spend on individualized instruction.
• B)observe a teacher's one-on-one interactions with several children in a laboratory school.
• C)select a group of children who score high on the self-confidence measure and a second group who score low on the self-confidence measure and expose them to both types of instruction.
• D)randomly assign half of the participants to group instruction and the other half to one-on-one instruction and compare measures of self-confidence for each group.

Recognize and differentiate between various types of heuristics such as availability and representativeness.

Understand functional fixedness and its impact on problem-solving.

Grasp the stages of Bowers's two-stage model of intuition.

Identify cognitive biases and their effects on perception and decision-making.

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Definitions:

Reliable Results

Outcomes or findings from an experiment, research, or test that are consistently reproducible and dependable.

Positive Outcomes

Favorable results or effects achieved from a given action, strategy, or policy.

Achievable

Goals or objectives that are within reach and can be accomplished with effort and planning.

Scientific Method

A systematic approach to research where the problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.