Consider the following statements:
(I) According to Vygotsky, cognitive development depends on social interaction.
(II) Vygotsky emphasizes the importance of a more experienced other, who serves as a guide to provide scaffolding for the learner.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(II) Vygotsky emphasizes the importance of a more experienced other, who serves as a guide to provide scaffolding for the learner.
Important Questions on Learning and Pedagogy
Consider the following statements:
(I) A child who says it is wrong to steal because she might get caught would be in Kohlberg’s instrumental hedonism stage.
(II) A teenager who took alcohol because all of these friends were taking it is in Kohlberg’s authority stage.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
(I) Critics of Kohlberg claim that his theory reflects a cultural bias.
(II) Pragmatics is learning a new word.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
(I) Infants utter their first word at around months age.
(II) After months infants acquire approximately new words a day.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
(I) Learning the speech sounds of the native language is known as phonology.
(II) Semantic refers to learning word meanings.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
(I) Infants have learned the meaning of some common words like ‘mammy’ and ‘daddy’ by months of age.
(II) Canonical refers to the repetition of vowel sounds.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
(I) Piaget proposes the perceptual assimilation mode.
(II) Statistical learning refers to using regularities in a speech to isolate words.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
(I) Syntax follows the predominant stress pattern of English.
(II) The ‘whole object’ bias refers to the tendency to assume that a word refers to events.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Consider the following statements:
(I) Syntactic bootstrapping is rapid learning of new words.
(II) The ‘wag test’ examined children’s understanding of nouns.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
