Which one of the following teachers is obviously keeping the notion of situated cognition in mind as he or she helps students transfer what they are learning in school?
a. Ms. Sporer asks her students to speculate about what might have happened if the Europeans had not discovered the New World until the 1800s.
b. Mr. Gerberg takes his middle school math students to the grocery store so that they can use their math skills to do some comparison shopping.
c. Mr. Mendoza makes sure that each one of the students in his instrumental music class knows the difference between the treble and bass clefs.
d. Ms. Sabih gives each of her elementary art students a hunk of clay and then says, I'd like you to mold your clay into a mythical creature of some kindinto an animal that doesn't actually exist.
Question 2
Leo has recently studied the principle of reinforcement in his psychology class. He is now trying to teach his dog how to fetch a ball. Given what psychologists have learned about transfer,
is Leo likely to use the principle of reinforcement in helping his dog learn to fetch?
a. Definitely yes
b. Definitely no
c. Only if he has previously learned the principle of reinforcement to automaticity
d. Only if he retrieves the principle of reinforcement when he is teaching his dog
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