Questioning as a Teaching Strategy

question 15

Multiple Choice

Questioning as a teaching strategy:

• A) is discouraged by the profession of early childhood education.
• B) requires teachers to engage children in conversations that potentially will expand their interests.
• C) is the opposite of open-ended questioning.
• D) suggests that teachers drill children on the curriculum provided during the previous group time.

Understand the role of auxiliary assumptions in connecting hypotheses to explananda.

Identify common flaws in explanations and understand their implications.

Understand the concept of plausibility in hypotheses and explanations.

Appreciate the significance of testing hypotheses and the role of observational evidence.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Theory

A theoretical perspective focusing on the processes of thinking, perceiving, remembering, and learning, which influence behavior.

Electra Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Oedipus Complex

A psychoanalytic theory that describes a child's feelings of desire for their opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward their same-sex parent.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, developed by Sigmund Freud.