If You Were Interested in Increasing the Self-Esteem of Grade

question 108

Multiple Choice

If you were interested in increasing the self-esteem of grade school students, and you wanted to promote effective learning, you should recommend using all of the following techniques EXCEPT:

• A) creating a highly competitive environment, so that children had to perform or they would fail
• B) using cooperative learning strategies, where students had to work together
• C) assigning small-group projects and activities
• D) assigning projects that require in-depth inquiry, where students have to persist in the learning task in order to complete it successfully

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Definitions:

Shadowing Performance

A task in cognitive research where an individual repeats auditory information immediately as it is heard, used to study attention and language processing.

Treisman

Anne Treisman, a psychologist known for her work in attention, particularly the feature integration theory, which describes how we perceive objects.

Linguistic Characteristics

Features that define a particular language, including grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics.

Bottleneck Theory

A theory suggesting that individuals have a limited capacity of processing information, causing a bottleneck in the system that delays further processing.