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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Multigrade classrooms
B Fully inclusive classrooms
C Segregated environments
D The “the least restrictive” environments
Question #2
A Emotional problems
B Mild mental retardation
C Learning disabilities
D Autism
Question #3
A Is creative
B Is talented
C Uses convergent thinking
D Is a high- IQ child
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 Emphasis on effort
B A shorter school year
C Ability grouping
D Emphasis on native ability
Question #6
A Emphasize a specific are of interest
B Are voluntarily segregated
C Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms
D Are usually located in upper-income areas
Question #7
A Hispanic children are more racially integrated than African-AMerican children in U.S. schools
B Federal and state grants-in-aid have been sufficient in closing the funding gap between rich and poor
C African-American children are just as likely to attend a school that serves a mostly black population as they were in 1960’s
D The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving
Question #8
A Social-constructive classroom
B Homogeneous grouping practice
C Cooperative learning technique
D Educational self-fulfilling prophecy
Question #9
A Cooperative learning is frowned upon
B Students construct their own knowledge
C Teachers, students, and peers work together on a wide range of challenging activities
D The teacher is the sole authority for knowledge, rules, and decision making
Question #10
A Have difficulty on selective attention tasks
B Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning
C Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility
D Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages
Question #11
A Reading
B Watching educational programming
C Talking
D Using educational computer game
Question #12
A The size of the cerebral cortex
B Self-discipline
C Emotional intelligence
D SES
Question #13
A Above average on early childhood intelligence tests, but scores decreased by middle childhood
B High on intelligence tests by middle childhood
C Below average on intelligence tests during school years
D Lower on intelligence tests then white children adopted into similar homes
Question #14
A Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded
B Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ
C IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment
D IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan
Question #15
A General
B Interpersonal
C Interpersonal
D Bodily-kinesthetic
Question #16
A Emotional
B Practical
C Analytical
D Creative
Question #17
A Reasoning about number concepts should replace drill in computation in elementary school
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 A blend of both drill in computing and “number sense,” or understanding, is most beneficial
Question #18
A Metacognitive
B Phonics
C Whole-language
D Pragmatic
Question #19
A Phonics
B Pragmatic
C Metacognitive
D Whole-language
Question #20
A Interpersonal intelligence
B Self-regulation
C Learned helplessness
D Metacognitive awareness
Question #21
A Elaboration
B Metacognition
C Selectivity of attention
D Cognitive self-regulation
Question #22
A Elaboration
B Organization
C Rehearsal
D Metacognition
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 Boys are diagnosed with ADHD about 4 times as often as girls
B Fraternal twins are more likely than identical twins to have ADHD
C All children with ADHD are hyperactive
D For a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 5
Question #25
A Little or no
B Substantial
C Only minor
D Moderate
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 Center on just one aspect of a problem, rather than focus on several aspects at once
B Order items along a quantitative dimension
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 No recess
B 5 to 10 minutes of recess a day
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 Seems to foster self-esteem and social skills
C Often results in psychological damage to children
D Often interferes with school work and can cause a sharp decline in academic achievement
Question #30
A Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy
B Play without rules and rely on individual ability
C Practice winning and losing with little personal risk
D Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills
Question #31
A For most children, join community sports is associated with decreased self-esteem
B School-age children today spend more time engage in informal outdoor play
C Gains in perspective taking permit a transition to rule-oriented games
D Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability
Question #32
A Makes strokes with his entire arm rather than just the wrist and fingers
B Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details
C Can only use his wrist and fingers to form the letters and numbers
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 Tanya, a Caucasian girl who lives in a rural area
D Meghan, a high SES Asian girl
Question #34
A Boys
B Middle-SES children
C Asain children
D Children who live in rural areas
Question #35
A Sickle cell anemia
B Systic fibrosis
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 Diabetes
B Asthma
C Heart Disease
D Tuberculosis
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 lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys
D Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat
Question #39
A Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening
B The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed
C She was losing “baby fat” at an increasing rate
D Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones
Question #40
A Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood
B Slows dramatically
C Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls
D Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood