Chapter 9 Quiz

A  Fully inclusive classrooms 

B  The “the least restrictive” environments 

C  Segregated environments

D  Multigrade classrooms

A  Autism 

B  Learning disabilities 

C  Emotional problems

D  Mild mental retardation

A  Is creative 

B  Is a high- IQ child

C  Uses convergent thinking

D  Is talented

A  Most gifted children have high self-esteem 

B  Many gifted children are socially isolated 

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

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

A  Ability grouping

B  A shorter school year 

C  Emphasis on native ability 

D  Emphasis on effort

A  Are voluntarily segregated 

B  Use constructivist classrooms rather than traditional classrooms

C  Are usually located in upper-income areas

D  Emphasize a specific are of interest

A  The racial divide in American public school is gradually improving

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

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

A  Social-constructive classroom

B   Educational self-fulfilling prophecy 

C  Homogeneous grouping practice

D  Cooperative learning technique 

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

B  Students construct their own knowledge

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

D  Cooperative learning is frowned upon

A  Are behind in detection of errors in grammar and meaning 

B  Are behind in reading achievement tests in both languages

C  Have difficulty on selective attention tasks

D  Outperform others on test of cognitive flexibility 

A  Watching educational programming 

B  Using educational computer game

C  Talking 

D  Reading 

A  The size of the cerebral cortex

B  SES

C  Self-discipline

D  Emotional intelligence

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

B  High on intelligence tests by middle childhood 

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

D  Below average on intelligence tests during school years 

A  IQ variations are largely determines by differences in environment

B  Heredity contributes substantially to individual and SES differences in IQ 

C  IQ shows significant fluctuations over the lifespan

D  Ethnic and social class differences in IQ are unfounded 

A  Interpersonal

B  General

C  Bodily-kinesthetic

D  Interpersonal 

A  Analytical 

B  Emotional

C  Creative 

D   Practical 

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

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

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

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

A  Pragmatic 

B  Whole-language 

C  Metacognitive

D  Phonics 

A  Metacognitive

B  Pragmatic 

C  Phonics 

D  Whole-language 

A  Metacognitive awareness

B  Interpersonal intelligence

C  Self-regulation

D  Learned helplessness 

A  Elaboration 

B  Cognitive self-regulation

C  Selectivity of attention

D  Metacognition

A  Organization

B  Metacognition 

C  Rehearsal

D  Elaboration

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

B  All children with ADHD are hyperactive

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

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

A  Moderate

B  Only minor

C  Little or no

D  Substantial

A  Seriate mentally

B  Draw maps to scale

C  Readily read maps of extended outdoor environments

D  Classify three relations at once

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  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 interferes with school work and can cause a sharp decline in academic achievement 

B  Is the leading cause of childhood injury

C  Often results in psychological damage to children 

D  Seems to foster self-esteem and social skills

A  Develop a sense of pride in her superior motor skills

B  Practice winning and losing with little personal risk

C  Compere against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy

D  Play without rules and rely on individual ability 

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

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

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

D  Child-invented games are usually contests of individual ability

A  Has not yet developed adequate depth perception

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

C  Cannot yet visually distinguish fine details

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

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

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

C  Meghan, a high SES Asian girl

D  Ginger, an overweight hispanic girl

A  Asain children 

B  Boys

C  Middle-SES children

D  Children who live in rural areas

A  Sickle cell anemia 

B  Diabetes

C  Systic fibrosis

D  Asthma

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

B  The many hours children spend watching television 

C  Ineffective health education in the primary grades

D  The increasing number of hours children sleep at night

A  Asthma 

B  Heart Disease

C  Diabetes 

D  Tuberculosis

A  Many children experience a decreasing desire for physical exercise 

B  Girls lose their teeth slightly earlier than boys

C  Girls have slightly more muscle and boys more body fat

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

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

B  Her bones were strengthening while her muscles were weakening

C  Her ligaments were not yet firmly attached to bones

D  The bones of her body had shortened and narrowed

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