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Fresh Grad Lands Job as Real Estate Agent With Help from Professional Writers

People go to websites to get the information they desperately need.  They could be looking for an answer to a nagging question.  They might be looking for help in completing an important task.  For recent graduates, they might be looking for ways on how to prepare a comprehensive resume that can capture the attention of the hiring manager

Manush is a recent graduate from a prestigious university in California who is looking for a job opportunity as a real estate agent.  While he already has samples provided by his friends, he still feels something lacking in his resume.  Specifically, the he believes that his professional objective statement lacks focus and clarity. 

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“Kudos to the team for a job well done.  I am sincerely appreciative of the time and effort you gave on my resume.  You did not only help me land the job I had always been dreaming of but you also made me realize how important adding those specific keywords to my resume!  Cheers!

Manush’s story shows the importance of using powerful keywords to his resume in landing the job he wanted.

Chapter 9 Quiz

Navigation   » List of Schools  »  Los Angeles Mission College  »  Psychology  »  Psychology 041 – Lifespan Psychology  »  Spring 2016  »  Chapter 9 Quiz

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  The “the least restrictive” environments 
B  Fully inclusive classrooms 
C  Segregated environments
D  Multigrade classrooms
Question #2
A  Autism 
B  Learning disabilities 
C  Emotional problems
D  Mild mental retardation
Question #4
A   The vast majority of gifted children have IQ scores of 150 or higher 
B  Many gifted children are socially isolated 
C  Most gifted children have high self-esteem 
D  Most gifted children show an evenly high ability across academic subjects
Question #5
A  A shorter school year 
B  Emphasis on native ability 
C  Emphasis on effort
D  Ability grouping
Question #6
A  Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms
B  Are voluntarily segregated 
C  Emphasize a specific are of interest
D  Are usually located in upper-income areas
Question #7
A  The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving
B   Hispanic children are more racially integrated than African-AMerican children in U.S. schools
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   Educational self-fulfilling prophecy 
B  Social-constructive classroom
C  Homogeneous grouping practice
D  Cooperative learning technique 
Question #9
A  Cooperative learning is frowned upon
B  Students construct their own knowledge
C  The teacher is the sole authority for knowledge, rules, and decision making
D  Teachers, students, and peers work together on a wide range of challenging activities 
Question #10
A  Have difficulty on selective attention tasks
B  Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages
C  Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility 
D  Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning 
Question #11
A  Watching educational programming 
B  Reading 
C  Using educational computer game
D  Talking 
Question #12
A  Self-discipline
B  The size of the cerebral cortex
C  Emotional intelligence
D  SES
Question #13
A  Below average on intelligence tests during school years 
B  High on intelligence tests by middle childhood 
C  Above average on early childhood intelligence tests, but scores decreased by middle childhood
D  Lower on intelligence tests then white children adopted into similar homes
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 #16
A  Creative 
B  Analytical 
C  Emotional
D   Practical 
Question #17
A  Complex skills can only be learned by drill in computation and rote memorization 
B  Reasoning about number concepts should replace drill in computation in elementary school 
C  A blend of both drill in computing and “number sense,” or understanding, is most beneficial
D  Because children need to retrieve mathematical answers automatically, they should be exclusively taught by rote 
Question #20
A  Self-regulation
B  Interpersonal intelligence
C  Learned helplessness 
D  Metacognitive awareness
Question #21
A  Elaboration 
B  Cognitive self-regulation
C  Selectivity of attention
D  Metacognition
Question #23
A  Not usually a lifelong disorder 
B  Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques 
C  Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors
D  Most often caused by a highly stressful home life
Question #24
A  Boys are diagnosed with ADHD about 4 times as often as girls 
B  All children with ADHD are hyperactive
C  Fraternal twins are more likely than identical twins to have ADHD 
D  For a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 5
Question #26
A  Draw maps to scale
B  Classify three relations at once
C  Seriate mentally
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  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
Question #28
A  The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves 
B  More than 15 minutes of recess a day 
C  5 to 10 minutes of recess a day
D  No recess
Question #29
A  Often results in psychological damage to children 
B  Often interferes with school work and can cause a sharp decline in academic achievement 
C  Seems to foster self-esteem and social skills
D  Is the leading cause of childhood injury
Question #30
A  Practice winning and losing with little personal risk
B  Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy
C  Play without rules and rely on individual ability 
D  Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills
Question #31
A  Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability
B  For most children, join community sports is associated with decreased self-esteem
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  Makes strokes with his entire arm rather than just the wrist and fingers
B  Has not yet developed adequate depth perception
C  Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details
D  Can only use his wrist and fingers to form the letters and numbers
Question #33
A  Tanya, a Caucasian girl who lives in a rural area
B  Ellysa, an African-American girl who lives in poverty
C  Meghan, a high SES Asian girl
D  Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl
Question #34
A  Children who live in rural areas
B  Middle-SES children
C  Boys
D  Asain children 
Question #35
A  Systic fibrosis
B  Sickle cell anemia 
C  Diabetes
D  Asthma
Question #36
A  Ineffective health education in the primary grades
B  The increasing number of hours children sleep at night
C  A lack of physical play space in many neighborhoods and schools
D  The many hours children spend watching television 
Question #37
A  Tuberculosis
B  Heart Disease
C  Diabetes 
D  Asthma 
Question #38
A  12 of the primary teeth are lost and replaced by permanent ones
B  Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise 
C  Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat
D  Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys
Question #39
A  Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones
B  Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening
C  She was losing “baby fat” at an increasing rate 
D  The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed
Question #40
A  Slows dramatically
B  Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood
C  Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood
D  Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls