Chapter 9 Quiz

A  Multigrade classrooms

B  The “the least restrictive” environments 

C  Segregated environments

D  Fully inclusive classrooms 

A  Learning disabilities 

B  Mild mental retardation

C  Emotional problems

D  Autism 

A  Uses convergent thinking

B  Is talented

C  Is creative 

D  Is a high- IQ child

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 

A  Ability grouping

B  Emphasis on effort

C  A shorter school year 

D  Emphasis on native ability 

A  Emphasize a specific are of interest

B  Are voluntarily segregated 

C  Are usually located in upper-income areas

D  Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms

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  African-American children are just as likely to attend a school that serves a mostly black population as they were in 1960’s 

D  Federal and state grants-in-aid have been sufficient in closing the funding gap between rich and poor

A   Educational self-fulfilling prophecy 

B  Social-constructive classroom

C  Cooperative learning technique 

D  Homogeneous grouping practice

A  Students construct their own knowledge

B  Cooperative learning is frowned upon

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

A  Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages

B  Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility 

C  Have difficulty on selective attention tasks

D  Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning 

A  Watching educational programming 

B  Talking 

C  Using educational computer game

D  Reading 

A  SES

B  The size of the cerebral cortex

C  Self-discipline

D  Emotional intelligence

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

B  Below average on intelligence tests during school years 

C  High on intelligence tests by middle childhood 

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

A  IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan

B  IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment

C  Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded 

D  Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ 

A  Interpersonal 

B  Bodily-kinesthetic

C  Interpersonal

D  General

A   Practical 

B  Creative 

C  Analytical 

D  Emotional

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

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

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

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

A  Metacognitive

B  Pragmatic 

C  Phonics 

D  Whole-language 

A  Phonics 

B  Metacognitive

C  Whole-language 

D  Pragmatic 

A  Metacognitive awareness

B  Learned helplessness 

C  Self-regulation

D  Interpersonal intelligence

A  Elaboration 

B  Metacognition

C  Cognitive self-regulation

D  Selectivity of attention

A  Rehearsal

B  Metacognition 

C  Organization

D  Elaboration

A  Not usually a lifelong disorder 

B  Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors

C  Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques 

D  Most often caused by a highly stressful home life

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

A  Substantial

B  Moderate

C  Only minor

D  Little or no

A  Draw maps to scale

B  Seriate mentally

C  Classify three relations at once

D  Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments

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 

A  5 to 10 minutes of recess a day

B  The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves 

C  More than 15 minutes of recess a day 

D  No recess

A  Is the leading cause of childhood injury

B  Often results in psychological damage to children 

C  Seems to foster self-esteem and social skills

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

C  Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability

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

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

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

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

C  Meghan, a high SES Asian girl

D  Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl

A  Boys

B  Children who live in rural areas

C  Middle-SES children

D  Asain children 

A  Asthma

B  Diabetes

C  Sickle cell anemia 

D  Systic fibrosis

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

B  The many hours children spend watching television 

C  The increasing number of hours children sleep at night

D  Ineffective health education in the primary grades

A  Tuberculosis

B  Diabetes 

C  Asthma 

D  Heart Disease

A  Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat

B  Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise 

C  12 of the primary teeth are lost and replaced by permanent ones

D  Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys

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

A  Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood

B  Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls

C  Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood

D  Slows dramatically