As a Health Teacher, You Want Your Students to Know

question 14

Essay

As a health teacher, you want your students to know which foods go in each of the food groups so well that they can classify any food almost without thinking.Describe the kind of assessment instrument you should develop to assess students' achievement of your objective, including a discussion of whether or not your assessment should:
a.focus on lower-level or higher-level thinking skills;
b.be paper-pencil or performance-based;
c.assess recall or recognition.
In each case, justify your choice.

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Definitions:

Anxiety

A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, often about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

Stimulus Generalization

is the process in which a response is elicited by stimuli that are similar but not identical to the conditioned stimulus in a conditioning paradigm, demonstrating the ability to generalize learning to new stimuli.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus.

Original CS

In classical conditioning, the original conditioned stimulus that is neutral at first but becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response.