Assume that you are a preschool or kindergarten teacher and would like to help your students more accurately assess their capability for performing particular tasks. You consult Chapter 3 of Psychology Applied to Teaching and decide on the basis of the research findings summarized there that you should
a. create a relatively unstructured classroom that emphasizes free play.
b. allow your students to perform the task several times so they can compare their prior performance to the most recent one.
c. ignore the issue until the children are older and in Piaget's concrete operational stage of cognitive development.
d. have your students compare their performance to that of a peer who has done the task correctly.
Question 2
When Chelsea was in second grade she learned that broccoli and spinach are both green because they are plants and that plants are green because they contain chlorophyll. She did not think that her green ball contained chlorophyll because she knew it was not a plant. This is an example of meaningful learning according to which of the following theories of learning?
a. identical elements
b. social constructivism
c. doctrine of formal discipline
d. cognitive constructivism
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