1) according to the text, which of the following is a recommended strategy for dealing
with bullies in the school environment?
a. provision of social skill training and anger management programs for bullies
b. adoption of antibullying policies
c. use of empathetic listening to identity cognitive and affective problems associated
with bullying
d. all of these
2) ______ is the process of forming a mental representation of external physical actions
or mental operations.
a. internalization
b. scaffolding
c. inner speech
d. guided participation
3) you are interested in increasing cooperation among your third-grade students. you
divide the students into six-person teams to work on a learning task, with each team
member responsible for one part. during the first half of the lesson, members
responsible for the same part work together to discuss their part. then they return to
their original team to teach their part to the other team members. which strategy for
cooperative learning have you chosen?
a. group investigation
b. student teams achievement division
c. jigsaw classroom
d. brainstorming
4) which of the following statements regarding african american families in the united
states is true?
a. african american child-rearing practices tend to emphasize the importance of
conformity and passiveness.
b. compared to whites, african americans tend to place less emphasis on interpersonal
relationships, having few extended households.
c. african american families have become more diverse in composition and structure
than white families.
d. the majority of african american children live in two-parent households.
5) in the school setting, ______ are reputation-based collectives of similarly stereotyped
individuals who may or may not spend much time together.
a. friends
b. crowds
c. cliques
d. peers
6) henri is 20 months old and is able to say just a few words. what are his future
language abilities likely to be?
a. it is too early to tell, since the rate of early language development is an unreliable
predictor of a childs ultimate level of language skills .
b. henri is likely to be diagnosed with a language disorder.
c. henri will have difficulty learning to read.
d. henris vocabulary will probably never be as large as those of most other children his
age.
7) moses, who attends school in georgia, has a native language of spanish. at his school,
moses received a year of intensive training in english and has now been placed in an
english-speaking classroom. which approach has his school chosen?
a. bilingual education
b. structured immersion
c. submersion
d. english as a second language
8) a persons unique, genetically determined response to environmental influences is
called:
a. phenotype.
b. genotype.
c. polygenic trait sensitivity.
d. reaction range.
9) alexs father left the family when alex was 2 years old. alexs mother is recovering
from an addiction and struggles to earn enough at her minimum-wage job to pay the
rent on their two-bedroom apartment in one of the citys most dangerous neighbor. yet
despite these difficult circumstances, alex, who is now in the fifth grade, enjoys and
succeeds in school and has a number of friends in his class. which of the following
terms best characterizes alex?
a. external locus of control
b. resilient
c. self-monitoring
d. preoperational
10) ______ is a literacy skills program developed by marie clay that involves reading
short books and writing sentences.
a. writing across the curriculum
b. reading recovery
c. success for all
d. reading readiness
11) a psychologist believes that cognitive advances in a childs thinking are the result of
gradual improvements in the childs attention, memory, and thinking strategies. she
would best be described as adhering to ______ perspective.
a. the information-processing
b. a social-cultural
c. a social learning
d. the ecological
12) jessicas toy bear is out of reach under the couch. she crawls around to the back of
the couch to get her toy. jessica is at the ______ of the sensorimotor period of
development.
a. beginning
b. middle
c. end
d. none of these; jessica is in the concrete operations period.