1) if you choose to adopt a didactic instructional approach in your classroom, you can
expect, based on research findings, to see which of the following outcomes?
a. an increase in your students basic reading skills
b. better perfomance in oral language tasks in your class than in the classes of more
child-centered teachers
c. both of these
d. neither of these
2) in maccoby and martins (1983) model of parenting styles, a permissive-indulgent
parent is one who is ______ on control and ______ on responsiveness.
a. high/low
b. low/high
c. low/low
d. high/high
3) the effects of divorce on a child are:
a. straightforward; children experience negative consequences from divorce that are
often demonstrated in school.
b. related to the custodial parents income.
c. influenced by the level of conflict between parents and the quality of parent provided.
d. unrelated to the childs age and sex.
4) which of the following is not a goal of peer-assisted learning?
a. creating more classroom time for teachers to focus on students without exceptional
learning needs
b. to enhance the learning of peer tutors
c. to improve the social skills of students with exceptional needs
d. all of these are goals of peer-assisted learning.
5) in response to the story of heinz and his ill wife, helen responds, heinz should steal
the drug because his wife needs the drug and the husband will be lonely if she dies.
helens response would be categorized as ______ moral development.
a. postconventional
b. postoperational
c. preconventional
d. conventional
6) chucks mom asks him to pick up 15 grocery items on his way home from school. in
order to remember the list, chuck categorizes the items into produce, canned goods,
dairy items, and freezer foods. chucks memory strategy is called:
a. organization.
b. rehearsal.
c. elaboration.
d. automaticity.
7) according to piaget, observation and experimentation are involved in developing
______ knowledge, and mental constructions and abstractions are involved in the
development of ______ knowledge.
a. physical/logico-mathematical
b. physical/social
c. social/logico-mathematical
d. logico-mathematical/physical
8) comers schoold development program (sdp) and ziglers school of the 21st century
school reform models are most closely associated with which perspective on human
development?
a. psychoanalytic
b. ecological
c. behaviorist
d. biological
9) which of the following is not a basic competency of infancy, according to piagets
theory?
a. object permanence
b. goal-directed behavior
c. conservation
d. all of these are basic competencies of infancy.
10) ______ are sets of physical actions, mental operations, concepts, or theories that
people use to organize and acquire information about their world.
a. circular reactions
b. accommodations
c. assimilations
d. schemes
11) compared to piaget, vygotsky places more emphasis on:
a. mental representations.
b. innate abilities.
c. genetics and heredity.
d. social interaction and setting.
12) before piaget, children were generally thought of as:
a. having their own logic and ways of knowing that change with time.
b. actively constructing knowledge through interactions with the environment.
c. passively shaped and molded by the environment.
d. little scientists.
13) sixteen-year-old shaun is most likely to experience what type of relationship with
his parents?
a. shauns parents control and regulate his behavior.
b. shaun shifts toward autonomy, with some renegotiation of his and his parents roles.
c. shaun and his parents coregulate shauns behaviors and actions.
d. control of shauns behavior is shared by him and his parents.