Chapter 9 Quiz

A  Fully inclusive classrooms 

B  Segregated environments

C  The “the least restrictive” environments 

D  Multigrade classrooms

A  Mild mental retardation

B  Autism 

C  Learning disabilities 

D  Emotional problems

A  Uses convergent thinking

B  Is talented

C  Is a high- IQ child

D  Is creative 

A   The vast majority of gifted children have IQ scores of 150 or higher 

B  Many gifted children are socially isolated 

C  Most gifted children show an evenly high ability across academic subjects

D  Most gifted children have high self-esteem 

A  Ability grouping

B  Emphasis on effort

C  Emphasis on native ability 

D  A shorter school year 

A  Are voluntarily segregated 

B  Emphasize a specific are of interest

C  Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms

D  Are usually located in upper-income areas

A  The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving

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

C   Hispanic children are more racially integrated than African-AMerican children in U.S. schools

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

A  Social-constructive classroom

B  Homogeneous grouping practice

C  Cooperative learning technique 

D   Educational self-fulfilling prophecy 

A  Students construct their own knowledge

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

C  Cooperative learning is frowned upon

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

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

A  Talking 

B  Watching educational programming 

C  Using educational computer game

D  Reading 

A  Emotional intelligence

B  SES

C  Self-discipline

D  The size of the cerebral cortex

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

B  Below average on intelligence tests during school years 

C  High on intelligence tests by middle childhood 

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

A  IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan

B  Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded 

C  IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment

D  Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ 

A  Bodily-kinesthetic

B  Interpersonal

C  Interpersonal 

D  General

A  Analytical 

B   Practical 

C  Emotional

D  Creative 

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  Metacognitive

B  Whole-language 

C  Pragmatic 

D  Phonics 

A  Whole-language 

B  Metacognitive

C  Phonics 

D  Pragmatic 

A  Interpersonal intelligence

B  Self-regulation

C  Learned helplessness 

D  Metacognitive awareness

A  Metacognition

B  Elaboration 

C  Cognitive self-regulation

D  Selectivity of attention

A  Rehearsal

B  Organization

C  Metacognition 

D  Elaboration

A  Most commonly treated using behavior modifications techniques 

B  Most often caused by a highly stressful home life

C  Highly heritable and is also associated with environmental factors

D  Not usually a lifelong disorder 

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 

A  Only minor

B  Little or no

C  Substantial

D  Moderate

A  Classify three relations at once

B  Seriate mentally

C  Draw maps to scale

D  Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments

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  Think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction

D  Order items along a quantitative dimension

A  The threat of recess cancellation if any child misbehaves 

B  More than 15 minutes of recess a day 

C  No recess

D  5 to 10 minutes of recess a day

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 

A  Practice winning and losing with little personal risk

B  Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills

C  Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy

D  Play without rules and rely on individual ability 

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

B  Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability

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

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

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

B  Has not yet developed adequate depth perception

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

D  Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details

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

A  Middle-SES children

B  Boys

C  Children who live in rural areas

D  Asain children 

A  Asthma

B  Systic fibrosis

C  Sickle cell anemia 

D  Diabetes

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

A  Asthma 

B  Heart Disease

C  Tuberculosis

D  Diabetes 

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

B  Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat

C  Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys

D  Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise 

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

B  Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones

C  Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening

D  The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed

A  Speeds up more significantly for boys than for girls

B  Continues at the slow, regular pace of early childhood

C  Slows dramatically

D  Increases dramatically from the pace of early childhood