MsDion Is Teaching a Lesson on Producing Descriptive Words to a Group

question 13

Multiple Choice

Ms.Dion is teaching a lesson on producing descriptive words to a group of four students.Which of the following would be the most effective check for understanding ?

• A) calling on a student to say a new example of a descriptive word
• B) students read sentences and answer yes if the sentence includes descriptive words
• C) students each say a new example of a descriptive word
• D) students write a paragraph that includes descriptive words

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Definitions:

Spatial Perspective Taking

The cognitive ability to understand and interpret the spatial relations between objects from different viewpoints.

Mental Modules

Hypothesized innate mental faculties that receive inputs from particular classes of objects and produce corresponding information about the world.

Precausal Reasoning

A type of logic in young children characterized by a misunderstanding of cause and effect relationships.

Egocentrism

In Piaget’s terms, the tendency to “center on oneself”—that is, to consider the world entirely in terms of one’s own point of view.