Which Is Not a Piagetian-Based Implication for Teaching

question 85

Multiple Choice

Which is not a Piagetian-based implication for teaching?

• A) Teachers should provide answers rather than letting students find them on their own.
• B) The best teaching experiences are those slightly ahead of a child's current level of thinking.
• C) In order to promote learning, teachers should provide materials with which students can make their own discoveries.
• D) Letting students make mistakes is okay, as cognitive development tends to occur when children become aware of errors in their own thinking.

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Definitions:

Competitive Firm

A business that operates in a market with many buyers and sellers, where the company does not have the market power to set prices.

Demand Curve

A graphical representation showing the relationship between the price of a good or service and the quantity demanded by consumers, typically downward sloping.

Perfectly Competitive Markets

Markets in which no individual producer or consumer has the market power to influence prices, characterized by many buyers and sellers, homogeneous products, and free entry and exit.

Economic Profits

The difference between a firm's total revenue and its total costs, including both explicit and implicit costs, measuring the excess over the opportunity cost of capital.