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When 3-year-old Julia comes home from her first day at preschool, her father asks her, What's your teacher's name? Julia answers by saying, I forget. Yet when Dad drops Julia off at preschool the following morning, the teacher apologizes to both of them: How silly of me Yesterday when you came to school, Julia, I didn't tell you my name. It's Miss Martin. Obviously, of course, Julia couldn't forget something she never knew. How can we best explain her response to her father's question?
 
  a. Young children have little awareness of the nature of their own thinking.
  b. Young children often lie to cover up self-perceived weaknesses in their memories.
  c. Young children typically assume they know everything there is to know.
  d. Young children often confuse something they've learned in one situation with something they've learned in another, very different situation.

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Which one of the following statements best describes children's acquisition of new learning and problem-solving strategies?
 
  a. When children first acquire a new strategy, they use it infrequently and sometimes ineffectively.
  b. When children acquire a new strategy, they almost immediately abandon their earlier, less mature strategies.
  c. Children's new strategies are usually simple modifications of previous strategies.
  d. Children acquire new, more effective strategies only when adults encourage them to do so.



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mcni194

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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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debasdf

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)


milbourne11

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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