1) as children age, instrumental aggression ______ and hostile aggression ______.
a. decreases/decreases
b. increases/increases
c. increases/decreases
d. decreases/increases
2) a school administrator decides to study the effect of the dear (drop everything and
read) program, where students are required to read for 30 minutes every day in their
classroom. she randomly assigns half of the classes to participate in dear and the other
half to do something else. later, she compares reading test scores for the two groups. her
research is an example of a(n):
a. case study
b. natural experiment
c. laboratory experiment
d. observation
3) as a teacher, you have noticed patterns in how your students relate with their peers. in
your class you notice that peer groups tend to be organized by race and sex. there is
quite a bit of peer conformity, and you have begun to see cliques form. what grade do
you teach?
a. kindergarten
b. third grade
c. seventh grade
d. eleventh grade
4) the emergent literacy approach includes all of the following except:
a. emphasizing a set of skills children need to master before formal reading instruction.
b. a focus on literacy skills from birth to age 5 or 6 years.
c. a belief that children who have discovered the purposes for print are preparing for
literacy.
d. researching links between early literacy experiences and later reading and writing
achievement.
5) you are a teacher of four-year-olds in preschool. approximately how many words
would you expect most children in your class to have in their vocabulary?
a. 500
b. 1,000
c. 2,000
d. 4,000
6) eleven-month-old mallory says, baby. her statement could mean, give me my baby
doll, or there is the neighbors baby, or i am a baby. in this example, baby:
a. is a form of telegraphic speech.
b. is a holophrase.
c. represents parentese.
d. is a form of babbling.
7) research by simmons and blyth (1987) examining adolescents self-esteem in relation
to school transitions demonstrated that _______ showed the most dramatic drops in
self-esteem.
a. girls from 6-3-3 schools
b. boys from 6-3-3 schools
c. girls from 8-4 schools
d. boys from 8-4 schools
8) what percentage of students leave high school qualified to attend a four-year college?
a. 17 percent
b. 32 percent
c. 48 percent
d. 65 percent
9) research on cooperative learning suggests that this method:
a. improves student motivation to learn.
b. increases academic performance.
c. improves interpersonal relationships between students from different types of
backgrounds.
d. all of these
10) jeremy is shown pictures of two cows and five pigs. his teacher than asks, jeremy,
are there more pigs or more animals? jeremys teacher is trying to test jeremys
understanding of:
a. conservation.
b. hierarchies.
c. number.
d. transitivity.
11) claire, whose baby is at 13 weeks of gestation, is having a prenatal test. her doctor
inserts a hollow tube into the area surrounding the embryo and removes some material
for genetic testing. which procedure is claire experiencing?
a. ultrasound
b. chorionic villi sampling
c. amniocentesis
d. alpha-fetoprotein testing
12) the term ______ is used to describe childrens knowledge of gender.
a. gender constancy
b. gender schema
c. gender-role conceptions
d. androgyny
13) emily is an only child. in comparison to children with siblings, emily is likely to:
a. be just as socially competent.
b. have higher levels of self-esteem.
c. be spoiled and selfish.
d. be just as socially competent and have higher levels of self-esteem.
14) which of the following statements regarding homosexual youth is false?
a. about 2 million adolescents in the united states are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or
transgender.
b. because of increased societal acceptance of homosexuality, schools are a relatively
safe place for gay and lesbian youth.
c. schools are legally responsible for protecting gay youth from sexual harassment.
d. gay and lesbian adolescents abuse drugs and alcohol at a higher rate than their
heterosexual counterparts.
15) bradley attempts to influence his childrens behavior by using commands and
imperatives. he is often found to be saying, because i said so. which discipline
technique best describes bradleys style?
a. power assertion
b. corporal punishment
c. induction
d. simpatia
16) sheila, a first-grade teacher, believes that her students should not be pressured to
follow strict educational regimens; rather, their capacities should be allowed and
encouraged to develop naturally. her beliefs most resemble the ideas of which of the
following theorists?
a. rousseau
b. locke
c. freud
d. skinner
17) which of the following statements regarding autism is false?
a. about 70 percent of autistic children have some degree of mental retardation.
b. autism is more common in girls than in boys, but when boys have the disorder they
tend to have more severe symptoms.
c. autism is a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain.
d. children with high-functioning autism tend to be placed in regular classrooms.
18) racquel is a mexican adolescent who is empathetic and sensitive to conflict in her
social relationships. which cultural value has racquels family emphasized?
a. socialization
b. familialism
c. simpatia
d. coregulation