Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint, First Canadian Edition

E. Mavis Hetherington, University of Virginia
Ross D. Parke, University of California
Mark Schmuckler, University of Toronto at Scarborough

Schools, Technology, and Television

Key Persons Quiz

Match the key people to their descriptions.


1				A researcher who developed the concept of the jigsaw classroom.


2				Two researchers who identified the Pygmalion effect.


3				A researcher who has identified the three primary ways in which a computer can aid student learning in the classroom.


4				A leading researcher who has described the mastery-oriented versus helpless response patterns shown by children working on tasks that hold the possibility of failure.


5				An educational theorist at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto who has contributed greatly to the debate on whole language versus phonics as methods for teaching reading; argues that "teachers are pragmatists who will teach what works".


6				A researcher from Ryerson Polytechnic University who has studied how Hispanic American parents and children overcome barriers to academic success.

Answer choices for questions 1 through 6

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