Mr Simon Is Curious About the Experiences the Children in His

question 39

Multiple Choice

Mr. Simon is curious about the experiences the children in his preschool class have had with printed materials. Three of the following behaviors will give Mr. Simon useful information about the children's emergent literacy skills. Which behavior is least likely to yield useful information?

• A) Ability to handle books correctly
• B) Willingness to share books with peers
• C) Frequency of looking at books independently
• D) Degree of attentiveness as an adult reads a storybook

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Definitions:

Self-Coherence

The concept of how consistent an individual's identity, thoughts, and values are over time and across situations.

Self-Efficacy

A person's confidence in their ability to carry out actions required to achieve certain performance goals.

Shaping

A method of positive reinforcement in psychology used to teach new behaviors by systematically reinforcing successive approximations to the desired behavior.

Secondary Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a stimulus that becomes a conditioned stimulus through association with another conditioned stimulus elicits the same conditioned response.