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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  Multigrade classrooms
B  The “the least restrictive” environments 
C  Segregated environments
D  Fully inclusive classrooms 
Question #2
A  Emotional problems
B  Autism 
C  Mild mental retardation
D  Learning disabilities 
Question #4
A  Most gifted children show an evenly high ability across academic subjects
B  Many gifted children are socially isolated 
C   The vast majority of gifted children have IQ scores of 150 or higher 
D  Most gifted children have high self-esteem 
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  Homogeneous grouping practice
B   Educational self-fulfilling prophecy 
C  Social-constructive classroom
D  Cooperative learning technique 
Question #9
A  Students construct their own knowledge
B  Cooperative learning is frowned upon
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  Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility 
B  Have difficulty on selective attention tasks
C  Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning 
D  Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages
Question #11
A  Using educational computer game
B  Watching educational programming 
C  Talking 
D  Reading 
Question #12
A  The size of the cerebral cortex
B  Self-discipline
C  SES
D  Emotional intelligence
Question #13
A  Below average on intelligence tests during school years 
B  Lower on intelligence tests then white children adopted into similar homes
C  High on intelligence tests by middle childhood 
D  Above average on early childhood intelligence tests, but scores decreased by middle childhood
Question #14
A  Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ 
B  IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan
C  Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded 
D  IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment
Question #16
A  Emotional
B  Creative 
C  Analytical 
D   Practical 
Question #17
A  A blend of both drill in computing and “number sense,” or understanding, is most beneficial
B  Because children need to retrieve mathematical answers automatically, they should be exclusively taught by rote 
C  Complex skills can only be learned by drill in computation and rote memorization 
D  Reasoning about number concepts should replace drill in computation in elementary school 
Question #20
A  Self-regulation
B  Interpersonal intelligence
C  Metacognitive awareness
D  Learned helplessness 
Question #21
A  Metacognition
B  Elaboration 
C  Selectivity of attention
D  Cognitive self-regulation
Question #23
A  Not usually a lifelong disorder 
B  Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques 
C  Most often caused by a highly stressful home life
D  Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors
Question #24
A  For a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 5
B  Fraternal twins are more likely than identical twins to have ADHD 
C  All children with ADHD are hyperactive
D  Boys are diagnosed with ADHD about 4 times as often as girls 
Question #26
A  Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments
B  Draw maps to scale
C  Classify three relations at once
D  Seriate mentally
Question #27
A  Order items along a quantitative dimension
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  Center on just one aspect of a problem, rather than focus on several aspects at once 
Question #28
A  5 to 10 minutes of recess a day
B  No recess
C  The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves 
D  More than 15 minutes of recess a day 
Question #29
A  Is the leading cause of childhood injury
B  Often interferes with school work and can cause a sharp decline in academic achievement 
C  Often results in psychological damage to children 
D  Seems to foster self-esteem and social skills
Question #30
A  Play without rules and rely on individual ability 
B  Practice winning and losing with little personal risk
C  Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy
D  Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills
Question #31
A  School-age children today spend more time engage in informal outdoor play 
B  Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability
C  For most children, join community sports is associated with decreased self-esteem
D  Gains in perspective taking permit a transition to rule-oriented games
Question #32
A  Has not yet developed adequate depth perception
B  Makes strokes with his entire arm rather than just the wrist and fingers
C  Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details
D  Can only use his wrist and fingers to form the letters and numbers
Question #33
A  Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl
B  Ellysa, an African-American girl who lives in poverty
C  Tanya, a Caucasian girl who lives in a rural area
D  Meghan, a high SES Asian girl
Question #34
A  Boys
B  Children who live in rural areas
C  Middle-SES children
D  Asain children 
Question #35
A  Systic fibrosis
B  Diabetes
C  Asthma
D  Sickle cell anemia 
Question #36
A  The many hours children spend watching television 
B  The increasing number of hours children sleep at night
C  A lack of physical play space in many neighborhoods and schools
D  Ineffective health education in the primary grades
Question #37
A  Tuberculosis
B  Asthma 
C  Heart Disease
D  Diabetes 
Question #38
A  Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise 
B  12 of the primary teeth are lost and replaced by permanent ones
C  Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat
D  Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys
Question #39
A  Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening
B  Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones
C  She was losing “baby fat” at an increasing rate 
D  The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed
Question #40
A  Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls
B  Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood
C  Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood
D  Slows dramatically