Chapter 9 Quiz

A  Fully inclusive classrooms 

B  Segregated environments

C  Multigrade classrooms

D  The “the least restrictive” environments 

A  Mild mental retardation

B  Autism 

C  Learning disabilities 

D  Emotional problems

A  Is talented

B  Uses convergent thinking

C  Is creative 

D  Is a high- IQ child

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 

A  Emphasis on effort

B  A shorter school year 

C  Ability grouping

D  Emphasis on native ability 

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

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   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  The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving

A   Educational self-fulfilling prophecy 

B  Homogeneous grouping practice

C  Cooperative learning technique 

D  Social-constructive classroom

A  Students construct their own knowledge

B  The teacher is the sole authority for knowledge, rules, and decision making

C  Teachers, students, and peers work together on a wide range of challenging activities 

D  Cooperative learning is frowned upon

A  Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages

B  Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility 

C  Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning 

D  Have difficulty on selective attention tasks

A  Watching educational programming 

B  Using educational computer game

C  Talking 

D  Reading 

A  Emotional intelligence

B  SES

C  The size of the cerebral cortex

D  Self-discipline

A  Lower on intelligence tests then white children adopted into similar homes

B  High on intelligence tests by middle childhood 

C  Below average on intelligence tests during school years 

D  Above average on early childhood intelligence tests, but scores decreased by middle childhood

A  Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded 

B  IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment

C  IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan

D  Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ 

A  Bodily-kinesthetic

B  Interpersonal 

C  Interpersonal

D  General

A  Emotional

B   Practical 

C  Creative 

D  Analytical 

A  Complex skills can only be learned by drill in computation and rote memorization 

B  A blend of both drill in computing and “number sense,” or understanding, is most beneficial

C  Because children need to retrieve mathematical answers automatically, they should be exclusively taught by rote 

D  Reasoning about number concepts should replace drill in computation in elementary school 

A  Phonics 

B  Metacognitive

C  Whole-language 

D  Pragmatic 

A  Phonics 

B  Whole-language 

C  Pragmatic 

D  Metacognitive

A  Learned helplessness 

B  Interpersonal intelligence

C  Self-regulation

D  Metacognitive awareness

A  Cognitive self-regulation

B  Metacognition

C  Elaboration 

D  Selectivity of attention

A  Metacognition 

B  Rehearsal

C  Elaboration

D  Organization

A  Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques 

B  Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors

C  Most often caused by a highly stressful home life

D  Not usually a lifelong disorder 

A  Boys are diagnosed with ADHD about 4 times as often as girls 

B  For a child to be diagnosed with ADHD, symptoms must appear before age 5

C  Fraternal twins are more likely than identical twins to have ADHD 

D  All children with ADHD are hyperactive

A  Little or no

B  Moderate

C  Only minor

D  Substantial

A  Classify three relations at once

B  Seriate mentally

C  Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments

D  Draw maps to scale

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

A  No recess

B  The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves 

C  More than 15 minutes of recess a day 

D  5 to 10 minutes of recess a day

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 

A  Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy

B  Practice winning and losing with little personal risk

C  Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills

D  Play without rules and rely on individual ability 

A  School-age children today spend more time engage in informal outdoor play 

B  Gains in perspective taking permit a transition to rule-oriented games

C  Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability

D  For most children, join community sports is associated with decreased self-esteem

A  Makes strokes with his entire arm rather than just the wrist and fingers

B  Can only use his wrist and fingers to form the letters and numbers

C  Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details

D  Has not yet developed adequate depth perception

A  Meghan, a high SES Asian girl

B  Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl

C  Ellysa, an African-American girl who lives in poverty

D  Tanya, a Caucasian girl who lives in a rural area

A  Children who live in rural areas

B  Boys

C  Middle-SES children

D  Asain children 

A  Systic fibrosis

B  Asthma

C  Diabetes

D  Sickle cell anemia 

A  A lack of physical play space in many neighborhoods and schools

B  The increasing number of hours children sleep at night

C  The many hours children spend watching television 

D  Ineffective health education in the primary grades

A  Asthma 

B  Heart Disease

C  Diabetes 

D  Tuberculosis

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

A  She was losing “baby fat” at an increasing rate 

B  The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed

C  Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones

D  Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening

A  Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood

B  Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood

C  Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls

D  Slows dramatically