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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Fully inclusive classrooms
B Multigrade classrooms
C The “the least restrictive” environments
D Segregated environments
Question #2
A Mild mental retardation
B Emotional problems
C Learning disabilities
D Autism
Question #3
A Is talented
B Is creative
C Is a high- IQ child
D Uses convergent thinking
Question #4
A Most gifted children show an evenly high ability across academic subjects
B Many gifted children are socially isolated
C Most gifted children have high self-esteem
D The vast majority of gifted children have IQ scores of 150 or higher
Question #5
A A shorter school year
B Ability grouping
C Emphasis on native ability
D Emphasis on effort
Question #6
A Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms
B Are voluntarily segregated
C Are usually located in upper-income areas
D Emphasize a specific are of interest
Question #7
A Hispanic children are more racially integrated than African-AMerican children in U.S. schools
B The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving
C Federal and state grants-in-aid have been sufficient in closing the funding gap between rich and poor
D African-American children are just as likely to attend a school that serves a mostly black population as they were in 1960’s
Question #8
A Social-constructive classroom
B Educational self-fulfilling prophecy
C Homogeneous grouping practice
D Cooperative learning technique
Question #9
A The teacher is the sole authority for knowledge, rules, and decision making
B Cooperative learning is frowned upon
C Teachers, students, and peers work together on a wide range of challenging activities
D Students construct their own knowledge
Question #10
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
Question #11
A Reading
B Talking
C Using educational computer game
D Watching educational programming
Question #12
A SES
B Self-discipline
C The size of the cerebral cortex
D Emotional intelligence
Question #13
A Lower on intelligence tests then white children adopted into similar homes
B Above average on early childhood intelligence tests, but scores decreased by middle childhood
C Below average on intelligence tests during school years
D High on intelligence tests by middle childhood
Question #14
A IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan
B Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ
C IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment
D Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded
Question #15
A General
B Interpersonal
C Bodily-kinesthetic
D Interpersonal
Question #16
A Creative
B Analytical
C Emotional
D Practical
Question #17
A Because children need to retrieve mathematical answers automatically, they should be exclusively taught by rote
B A blend of both drill in computing and “number sense,” or understanding, is most beneficial
C Reasoning about number concepts should replace drill in computation in elementary school
D Complex skills can only be learned by drill in computation and rote memorization
Question #18
A Pragmatic
B Phonics
C Metacognitive
D Whole-language
Question #19
A Phonics
B Pragmatic
C Metacognitive
D Whole-language
Question #20
A Learned helplessness
B Metacognitive awareness
C Self-regulation
D Interpersonal intelligence
Question #21
A Cognitive self-regulation
B Selectivity of attention
C Elaboration
D Metacognition
Question #22
A Organization
B Metacognition
C Rehearsal
D Elaboration
Question #23
A Not usually a lifelong disorder
B Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors
C Most often caused by a highly stressful home life
D Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques
Question #24
A For a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 5
B All children with ADHD are hyperactive
C Boys are diagnosed with ADHD about 4 times as often as girls
D Fraternal twins are more likely than identical twins to have ADHD
Question #25
A Only minor
B Moderate
C Little or no
D Substantial
Question #26
A Seriate mentally
B Classify three relations at once
C Draw maps to scale
D Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments
Question #27
A Center on just one aspect of a problem, rather than focus on several aspects at once
B Order items along a quantitative dimension
C Center on just one aspect of a problem, rather than focus on several aspects at once
D Think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction
Question #28
A More than 15 minutes of recess a day
B The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves
C No recess
D 5 to 10 minutes of recess a day
Question #29
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
Question #30
A Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills
B Play without rules and rely on individual ability
C Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy
D Practice winning and losing with little personal risk
Question #31
A For most children, join community sports is associated with decreased self-esteem
B Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability
C School-age children today spend more time engage in informal outdoor play
D Gains in perspective taking permit a transition to rule-oriented games
Question #32
A Can only use his wrist and fingers to form the letters and numbers
B Makes strokes with his entire arm rather than just the wrist and fingers
C Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details
D Has not yet developed adequate depth perception
Question #33
A Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl
B Ellysa, an African-American girl who lives in poverty
C Meghan, a high SES Asian girl
D Tanya, a Caucasian girl who lives in a rural area
Question #34
A Asain children
B Boys
C Children who live in rural areas
D Middle-SES children
Question #35
A Systic fibrosis
B Sickle cell anemia
C Diabetes
D Asthma
Question #36
A The increasing number of hours children sleep at night
B A lack of physical play space in many neighborhoods and schools
C Ineffective health education in the primary grades
D The many hours children spend watching television
Question #37
A Diabetes
B Heart Disease
C Asthma
D Tuberculosis
Question #38
A Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise
B Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys
C 12 of the primary teeth are lost and replaced by permanent ones
D Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat
Question #39
A Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones
B Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening
C The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed
D She was losing “baby fat” at an increasing rate
Question #40
A Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls
B Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood
C Slows dramatically
D Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood