1) compared to those who have feminine or masculine gender-role conceptions, those
with androgynous gender-role conception tend to have:
a. higher self-esteem.
b. better coping skills.
c. more life satisfaction.
d. all of these
2) which of the following statements about computer-assisted instruction (cai) is false?
a. childrens academic performance increased significantly when they used cai in
cooperative learning groups rather than individually.
b. cai can be used to enhance memorization skills.
c. cai eliminates the need for teacher monitoring.
d. cai is the only way some children with visual and hearing impairments can be
included in the regular classroom.
3) the tendency to choose an environment that complements our heredity is called:
a. heritability.
b. niche-picking.
c. practical intelligence.
d. standard deviation.
4) which of the following parents is most likely to involved in his or childs school?
a. martin, the single father of a ninth-grader
b. lucia, the college-educated a first-grader
c. louis, a low-income father of a sixth-grader
d. christina, the spanish-speaking mother a high school student
5) as a school counselor, you want to obtain a measure of students potential to learn or
apply information in new ways. you should choose an:
a. achievement test.
b. intelligence test.
c. both an achievement and an intelligence test.
d. neither an achievement nor an intelligence test.
6) as a teacher, which of the following would serve as a general indicator of possible
child abuse and neglect in one of your students?
a. physical injuries
b. behavioral problems
c. sudden changes in academic performance
d. all of these
7) gender differences in motor skills during the childhood years are best explained by:
a. practice and experience.
b. interest.
c. inborn differences between females and males.
d. both practice/experience and interest.
8) robert is the parent of a newborn. according to piagets theory, robert should expect
his son to develop cognitively in which order?
a. sensorimotor, preoperations, formal operations, concrete operations
b. sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, formal operations
c. preoperations, formal operations, concrete operations, sensorimotor
d. preoperations, sensorimotor, concrete operations, formal operations
9) which embryonic layer becomes the nervous system and skin?
a. mesoderm
b. ectoderm
c. endoderm
d. teratogen
10) as a new teacher at friendship elementary school, you discover that 15 percent of
the children are receiving medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. this
discovery:
a. shocks you, since you would expect only about 7 percent of the children to be
receiving treatment for adhd.
b. surprises you, since this rate of adhd students is lower than the national average.
c. doesnt surprise you, since this is about the same percentage of students who are
diagnosed with adhd at a national level.
d. doesnt concern you, as you are unlikely to interact with students who have adhd.
11) which of the following is not a criticism of piagets theories?
a. his equilibration model is inadequate for explaining childrens advances in cognitive
development.
b. he paid little attention to the cultural context in which thinking skills develop.
c. his model is biased against females and minorities.
d. he underestimated cognitive abilities in both infancy and childhood.
12) you are appointed to committee tasked with reducing the dropout rate in your
school district. familiar with recent studies of when and why students leave school, you
argue that the committee should devote its most urgent efforts to students in which
grade?
a. first
b. sixth
c. ninth
d. eleventh
13) when reviewing an article from an educational journal, you become concerned
about the studys accuracy. with which criteria for judging the quality of a study are you
concerned?
a. reliability
b. validity
c. generalizability
d. replication
14) brittons (1975) and applebees (1981) research suggested that schools most often
encourage ______ writing among high school students.
a. expository
b. personal
c. literary
d. none of these; high schools were found to place equal emphasis on all three types of
writing
15) the three cscapability, connection, and contributionis an aspect of which approach to
discipline?
a. cooperative discipline
b. win-win conflict resolution
c. driekurs model: discipline through democratic teaching
d. second step
16) at puberty, females experience an increase in ______, and males experience an
increase in ______.
a. estrogen/estrogen
b. estrogen/testosterone
c. testosterone/estrogen
d. testosterone/testosterone
17) the particular configuration of people who live together in a family unit is usually
referred to as the:
a. socialization structure.
b. socialization unit.
c. family structure.
d. chronosystem.
18) two-year-old jordan understands that balls roll and blocks do not roll. this is an
example of ______ knowledge.
a. logico-mathematical
b. physical
c. social
d. innate
19) which of the following statements regarding ethical guidelines for research
involving children and adults is false?
a. researchers are required to keep all information confidential, even if they obtain
information that threatens the childs well-being.
b. every participant must be given the opportunity to see the results of the study.
c. children in the control group have the right to receive the same treatment as the
experimental group if it turns out that the experimental treatment has some beneficial
outcome.
d. the perceived benefits of a study must outweigh its potential risks and costs in terms
of time and effort.
20) which theorists perspective suggests that language development is totally dependent
on environmental factors?
a. noam chomsky
b. jean piaget
c. lev vygotsky
d. b. f. skinner