Chapter 9 Quiz

A  Fully inclusive classrooms 

B  The “the least restrictive” environments 

C  Multigrade classrooms

D  Segregated environments

A  Autism 

B  Mild mental retardation

C  Learning disabilities 

D  Emotional problems

A  Is a high- IQ child

B  Is creative 

C  Uses convergent thinking

D  Is talented

A  Most gifted children have high self-esteem 

B  Most gifted children show an evenly high ability across academic subjects

C  Many gifted children are socially isolated 

D   The vast majority of gifted children have IQ scores of 150 or higher 

A  Emphasis on effort

B  A shorter school year 

C  Emphasis on native ability 

D  Ability grouping

A  Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms

B  Emphasize a specific are of interest

C  Are usually located in upper-income areas

D  Are voluntarily segregated 

A  The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving

B  African-American children are just as likely to attend a school that serves a mostly black population as they were in 1960’s 

C   Hispanic children are more racially integrated than African-AMerican children in U.S. schools

D  Federal and state grants-in-aid have been sufficient in closing the funding gap between rich and poor

A   Educational self-fulfilling prophecy 

B  Social-constructive classroom

C  Homogeneous grouping practice

D  Cooperative learning technique 

A  Students construct their own knowledge

B  Teachers, students, and peers work together on a wide range of challenging activities 

C  The teacher is the sole authority for knowledge, rules, and decision making

D  Cooperative learning is frowned upon

A  Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility 

B  Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages

C  Have difficulty on selective attention tasks

D  Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning 

A  Watching educational programming 

B  Talking 

C  Reading 

D  Using educational computer game

A  Self-discipline

B  SES

C  Emotional intelligence

D  The size of the cerebral cortex

A  Below average on intelligence tests during school years 

B  Above average on early childhood intelligence tests, but scores decreased by middle childhood

C  High on intelligence tests by middle childhood 

D  Lower on intelligence tests then white children adopted into similar homes

A  IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment

B  Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ 

C  IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan

D  Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded 

A  General

B  Interpersonal

C  Bodily-kinesthetic

D  Interpersonal 

A   Practical 

B  Creative 

C  Analytical 

D  Emotional

A  Because children need to retrieve mathematical answers automatically, they should be exclusively taught by rote 

B  Reasoning about number concepts should replace drill in computation in elementary school 

C  Complex skills can only be learned by drill in computation and rote memorization 

D  A blend of both drill in computing and “number sense,” or understanding, is most beneficial

A  Metacognitive

B  Whole-language 

C  Phonics 

D  Pragmatic 

A  Pragmatic 

B  Whole-language 

C  Phonics 

D  Metacognitive

A  Learned helplessness 

B  Metacognitive awareness

C  Interpersonal intelligence

D  Self-regulation

A  Elaboration 

B  Cognitive self-regulation

C  Metacognition

D  Selectivity of attention

A  Rehearsal

B  Metacognition 

C  Organization

D  Elaboration

A  Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors

B  Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques 

C  Not usually a lifelong disorder 

D  Most often caused by a highly stressful home life

A  All children with ADHD are hyperactive

B  Fraternal twins are more likely than identical twins to have ADHD 

C  Boys are diagnosed with ADHD about 4 times as often as girls 

D  For a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 5

A  Substantial

B  Little or no

C  Moderate

D  Only minor

A  Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments

B  Classify three relations at once

C  Draw maps to scale

D  Seriate mentally

A  Center on just one aspect of a problem, rather than focus on several aspects at once 

B  Center on just one aspect of a problem, rather than focus on several aspects at once 

C  Think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction

D  Order items along a quantitative dimension

A  No recess

B  The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves 

C  5 to 10 minutes of recess a day

D  More than 15 minutes of recess a day 

A  Often results in psychological damage to children 

B  Seems to foster self-esteem and social skills

C  Is the leading cause of childhood injury

D  Often interferes with school work and can cause a sharp decline in academic achievement 

A  Practice winning and losing with little personal risk

B  Play without rules and rely on individual ability 

C  Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills

D  Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy

A  Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability

B  Gains in perspective taking permit a transition to rule-oriented games

C  School-age children today spend more time engage in informal outdoor play 

D  For most children, join community sports is associated with decreased self-esteem

A  Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details

B  Can only use his wrist and fingers to form the letters and numbers

C  Makes strokes with his entire arm rather than just the wrist and fingers

D  Has not yet developed adequate depth perception

A  Ellysa, an African-American girl who lives in poverty

B  Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl

C  Meghan, a high SES Asian girl

D  Tanya, a Caucasian girl who lives in a rural area

A  Middle-SES children

B  Asain children 

C  Boys

D  Children who live in rural areas

A  Sickle cell anemia 

B  Systic fibrosis

C  Diabetes

D  Asthma

A  The increasing number of hours children sleep at night

B  Ineffective health education in the primary grades

C  The many hours children spend watching television 

D  A lack of physical play space in many neighborhoods and schools

A  Heart Disease

B  Diabetes 

C  Asthma 

D  Tuberculosis

A  12 of the primary teeth are lost and replaced by permanent ones

B  Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat

C  Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise 

D  Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys

A  She was losing “baby fat” at an increasing rate 

B  Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening

C  Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones

D  The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed

A  Slows dramatically

B  Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls

C  Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood

D  Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood