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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 Segregated environments
D The “the least restrictive” environments
Question #2
A Mild mental retardation
B Autism
C Learning disabilities
D Emotional problems
Question #3
A Uses convergent thinking
B Is a high- IQ child
C Is talented
D Is creative
Question #4
A Most gifted children have high self-esteem
B The vast majority of gifted children have IQ scores of 150 or higher
C Most gifted children show an evenly high ability across academic subjects
D Many gifted children are socially isolated
Question #5
A Ability grouping
B Emphasis on effort
C Emphasis on native ability
D A shorter school year
Question #6
A Are usually located in upper-income areas
B Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms
C Are voluntarily segregated
D Emphasize a specific are of interest
Question #7
A African-American children are just as likely to attend a school that serves a mostly black population as they were in 1960’s
B The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving
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
Question #8
A Social-constructive classroom
B Educational self-fulfilling prophecy
C Homogeneous grouping practice
D Cooperative learning technique
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 Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages
B Have difficulty on selective attention tasks
C Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning
D Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility
Question #11
A Using educational computer game
B Watching educational programming
C Reading
D Talking
Question #12
A The size of the cerebral cortex
B SES
C Emotional intelligence
D Self-discipline
Question #13
A High on intelligence tests by middle childhood
B Above average on early childhood intelligence tests, but scores decreased 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 Bodily-kinesthetic
D Interpersonal
Question #16
A Creative
B Practical
C Analytical
D Emotional
Question #17
A Complex skills can only be learned by drill in computation and rote memorization
B Because children need to retrieve mathematical answers automatically, they should be exclusively taught by rote
C A blend of both drill in computing and “number sense,” or understanding, is most beneficial
D Reasoning about number concepts should replace drill in computation in elementary school
Question #18
A Whole-language
B Metacognitive
C Pragmatic
D Phonics
Question #19
A Pragmatic
B Metacognitive
C Whole-language
D Phonics
Question #20
A Self-regulation
B Interpersonal intelligence
C Learned helplessness
D Metacognitive awareness
Question #21
A Metacognition
B Cognitive self-regulation
C Elaboration
D Selectivity of attention
Question #22
A Rehearsal
B Organization
C Elaboration
D Metacognition
Question #23
A Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors
B Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques
C Most often caused by a highly stressful home life
D Not usually a lifelong disorder
Question #24
A For a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 5
B Boys are diagnosed with ADHD about 4 times as often as girls
C All children with ADHD are hyperactive
D Fraternal twins are more likely than identical twins to have ADHD
Question #25
A Only minor
B Little or no
C Substantial
D Moderate
Question #26
A Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments
B Seriate mentally
C Classify three relations at once
D Draw maps to scale
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 Order items along a quantitative dimension
D Think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction
Question #28
A No recess
B 5 to 10 minutes of recess a day
C More than 15 minutes of recess a day
D The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves
Question #29
A Often interferes with school work and can cause a sharp decline in academic achievement
B Is the leading cause of childhood injury
C Seems to foster self-esteem and social skills
D Often results in psychological damage to children
Question #30
A Play without rules and rely on individual ability
B Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills
C Practice winning and losing with little personal risk
D Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy
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 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 Has not yet developed adequate depth perception
D Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details
Question #33
A Ellysa, an African-American girl who lives in poverty
B Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl
C Tanya, a Caucasian girl who lives in a rural area
D Meghan, a high SES Asian girl
Question #34
A Middle-SES children
B Asain children
C Children who live in rural areas
D Boys
Question #35
A Diabetes
B Asthma
C Systic fibrosis
D Sickle cell anemia
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 The many hours children spend watching television
D Ineffective health education in the primary grades
Question #37
A Heart Disease
B Asthma
C Diabetes
D Tuberculosis
Question #38
A Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise
B Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat
C 12 of the primary teeth are lost and replaced by permanent ones
D Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys
Question #39
A She was losing “baby fat” at an increasing rate
B The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed
C Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening
D Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones
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