1) a 21st-century community school might differ from a traditional public school in
which of the following ways?
a. it might be open year-round.
b. it might provide health care services to students and families.
c. it might provide child care on school grounds.
d. all of these
2) all but which of the following are true regarding childrens memory-retrieval
strategies,?
a. older children are more exhaustive in their memory searches than younger children.
b. younger children tend to be more systematic and deliberate in their memory
searchers than older children.
c. older children are more likely to recognize on their own when to use particular
strategies, while younger children need to be directed to do so.
d. younger children are more likely to give up when they do not recall information.
3) psychologists use the term ______ to describe the ability of the young brain to
change and adapt.
a. habituation
b. lateralization
c. hemispheric specialization
d. plasticity
4) twelve-year-old rebeccas parents provide general guidelines for acceptable behavior,
while rebecca makes her own decisions about everyday choices and behaviors. this
mutual control of rebeccas behavior is referred to as:
a. coregulation.
b. authoritarian parenting.
c. permissiveness.
d. autonomy.
5) while jacob is reading his harry potter books, he does not always know the words.
sometimes jacob uses the surrounding text and his own background knowledge to
figure out an unknown word. in these instances, jacob is using:
a. context knowledge.
b. phonic knowledge.
c. sight word knowledge.
d. comprehension.
6) in a study examining the influence of teachers beliefs about child development on
teaching practices, smith and sheppard (1988) found that nearly half of teachers
believed that:
a. school readiness could be influenced by environmental factors under the teacher or
parents control.
b. child development was largely or completely outside the influence of parents or
teachers.
c. school readiness is a complex interaction between the childs maturation and his/her
environment.
d. none of these
7) reuben, who has down syndrome, receives special training at his high school. his
training involves balancing a checkbook, planning a bus trip, and learning to read traffic
and direction signs. these are examples of training in:
a. home-living skills.
b. functional academics.
c. self-care skills.
d. communication.
8) meghan is at a circus, experiencing many sights, sounds, smells, and tastes. which
component of her information processing system stores her initial impressions through
these sensory modalities?
a. short-term memory
b. long-term memory
c. semantic memory
d. sensory memory
9) about what percentage of parents in the united states report having spanked their
child?
a. less than 10 percent
b. about one-third
c. about two-thirds
d. more than 90 percent
10) the transcription component of the writing system includes:
a. handwriting
b. spelling
c. pronunciation
d. both handwriting and spelling
11) by the twelfth grade, what percentage of teens report having had sexual intercourse?
a. 33
b. 45
c. 65
d. 80
12) recent surveys suggest that parental involvement in elementary school is most likely
to be in the form of:
a. attending a conference with the childs teacher.
b. attending a general school meeting (e.g. pto).
c. attending a school event, like a play or ceremony.
d. acting as a volunteer or serving on a committee.