Question 1

Very young babies demonstrate the ability to discriminate between different amounts.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

What is the deliberate teaching of children to pass on knowledge, information, and skills?

Accepted Answer

A)  social enhancement 
B)  imitation 
C)  socialization 
D)  explicit instruction 
A)  social enhancement 
B)  imitation 
C)  socialization 
D)  explicit instruction

Question 3

Effective culturally-adaptive instruction for Odawa Indian children included:

Accepted Answer

A)  much specific praise for individual work such as following up a correct answer by saying, "good." 
B)  avoiding the recitation-script and known-answer questions. 
C)  addressing the children as a group and reprimanding students in private. 
D)  assisting students to complete work individually. 
A)  much specific praise for individual work such as following up a correct answer by saying, "good." 
B)  avoiding the recitation-script and known-answer questions. 
C)  addressing the children as a group and reprimanding students in private. 
D)  assisting students to complete work individually.

Question 4

A child who decides he is no good at math because he does poorly on a math test is exhibiting:

Accepted Answer

A)  math phobia. 
B)  a mastery orientation. 
C)  a performance orientation. 
D)  an incremental model of intelligence. 
A)  math phobia. 
B)  a mastery orientation. 
C)  a performance orientation. 
D)  an incremental model of intelligence.

Question 5

What methods of education would we be likely to see among the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert?

Accepted Answer

A)  implicit instruction embedded in everyday activity 
B)  education separate from kinship obligations and economic contributions 
C)  tasks focused on individual work 
D)  many years of practice before skills are put to use in work settings 
A)  implicit instruction embedded in everyday activity 
B)  education separate from kinship obligations and economic contributions 
C)  tasks focused on individual work 
D)  many years of practice before skills are put to use in work settings

Question 6

Schooling influences memory abilities by helping children:

Accepted Answer

A)  obtain experience remembering items tied to any everyday script. 
B)  increase their memory capacity. 
C)  develop specialized memory strategies that help them remember arbitrary items. 
D)  engage in concrete operational thinking. 
A)  obtain experience remembering items tied to any everyday script. 
B)  increase their memory capacity. 
C)  develop specialized memory strategies that help them remember arbitrary items. 
D)  engage in concrete operational thinking.

Question 7

When Mr. Johnson and a small group of students read silently through a portion of text and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning, what has taken place?

Accepted Answer

A)  reciprocal teaching 
B)  integrated teaching 
C)  collaborative teaching 
D)  individualized teaching 
A)  reciprocal teaching 
B)  integrated teaching 
C)  collaborative teaching 
D)  individualized teaching

Question 8

Top-down mathematics instruction begins with:

Accepted Answer

A)  drill and practice on basic procedures. 
B)  teaching strategies such as inversion. 
C)  reciprocal teaching. 
D)  problems that relate to children's real-world experiences. 
A)  drill and practice on basic procedures. 
B)  teaching strategies such as inversion. 
C)  reciprocal teaching. 
D)  problems that relate to children's real-world experiences.

Question 9

Children who have participated in formal schooling tend to perform better on logical thinking tasks than their unschooled peers primarily because:

Accepted Answer

A)  they develop better generalized abilities in logical thinking. 
B)  they are familiar with the test taking situation. 
C)  interviewers tend to talk with them in their native language. 
D)  they are able to apply strategic knowledge in the testing situation. 
A)  they develop better generalized abilities in logical thinking. 
B)  they are familiar with the test taking situation. 
C)  interviewers tend to talk with them in their native language. 
D)  they are able to apply strategic knowledge in the testing situation.

Question 10

Children of immigrant families are the fastest-growing group of children in the United States, accounting for approximately what percentage of all U.S. children?

Accepted Answer

A)  10 
B)  15 
C)  25 
D)  35 
A)  10 
B)  15 
C)  25 
D)  35

Question 11

Helen Raikes discovered that reading and vocabulary lead to more opportunities to use and learn language. She called this relationship the:

Accepted Answer

A)  snowball effect. 
B)  drip drip effect. 
C)  drench hypothesis. 
D)  cultivation hypothesis. 
A)  snowball effect. 
B)  drip drip effect. 
C)  drench hypothesis. 
D)  cultivation hypothesis.

Question 12

Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that involves a low quantitative IQ.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In a study observing Mayan mothers teaching their children to complete a puzzle, Chavajay and Rogoff (2002) found that:

Accepted Answer

A)  mothers who had 12 years of schooling participated with their children in completing the puzzle but did not explicitly teach them. 
B)  mothers who had 2 years of schooling or less used school-like teaching styles. 
C)  mothers who had 12 years of schooling used school-like teaching styles. 
D)  the schooling experience of the mothers did not make a difference in the teaching styles the mothers used. 
A)  mothers who had 12 years of schooling participated with their children in completing the puzzle but did not explicitly teach them. 
B)  mothers who had 2 years of schooling or less used school-like teaching styles. 
C)  mothers who had 12 years of schooling used school-like teaching styles. 
D)  the schooling experience of the mothers did not make a difference in the teaching styles the mothers used.

Question 14

Daniel has been diagnosed with a specific learning disability. He was administered tests of intellectual functioning and the results indicated that he performed well in the area of spatial reasoning but very poorly in the area of reading comprehension. Which diagnostic method was used to conclude that Daniel had a specific learning disability?

Accepted Answer

A)  severe discrepancy 
B)  response to intervention 
C)  patterns of strengths and weaknesses 
D)  overall intellectual functioning 
A)  severe discrepancy 
B)  response to intervention 
C)  patterns of strengths and weaknesses 
D)  overall intellectual functioning

Question 15

In comparison with working-class Kenyan children or children from Brazil or the United States, Kenyan middle-class children:

Accepted Answer

A)  spent more time engaged in academically oriented play and lessons with their parents. 
B)  spent more time engaged in world lessons with their parents. 
C)  spent less time engaged in academically oriented play and lessons with their parents. 
D)  were similar to middle-class children from Brazil and the U.S. in terms of their time engaged in academically oriented play and lessons. 
A)  spent more time engaged in academically oriented play and lessons with their parents. 
B)  spent more time engaged in world lessons with their parents. 
C)  spent less time engaged in academically oriented play and lessons with their parents. 
D)  were similar to middle-class children from Brazil and the U.S. in terms of their time engaged in academically oriented play and lessons.

Question 16

When Brandon is asked to count his fingers, he counts each one and says, "three, five, six." These types of errors reveal:

Accepted Answer

A)  no competencies related to math learning. 
B)  an understanding that the sequence of the numbers matter. 
C)  an understanding of color words. 
D)  a lack of understanding that different number words relate to different quantities. 
A)  no competencies related to math learning. 
B)  an understanding that the sequence of the numbers matter. 
C)  an understanding of color words. 
D)  a lack of understanding that different number words relate to different quantities.

Question 17

Schools in economically impoverished neighborhoods tend to:

Accepted Answer

A)  provide a quality education. 
B)  provide education of equal quality to suburban schools. 
C)  have a low number of ethnic minority children enrolled. 
D)  have a large number of ethnic minority children enrolled. 
A)  provide a quality education. 
B)  provide education of equal quality to suburban schools. 
C)  have a low number of ethnic minority children enrolled. 
D)  have a large number of ethnic minority children enrolled.

Question 18

Realistic mathematics education fits with which view?

Accepted Answer

A)  Children must learn basic operations before they learn how to apply the operations. 
B)  An understanding of broad mathematical concepts is more important than the ability to carry out a sequence of actions to solve a problem. 
C)  Children learn basic math skills best when they are linked with real-world problems. 
D)  Drill and practice strategies give children the repeated practice necessary to acquire basic math skills. 
A)  Children must learn basic operations before they learn how to apply the operations. 
B)  An understanding of broad mathematical concepts is more important than the ability to carry out a sequence of actions to solve a problem. 
C)  Children learn basic math skills best when they are linked with real-world problems. 
D)  Drill and practice strategies give children the repeated practice necessary to acquire basic math skills.

Question 19

Bottom-up mathematics instruction begins with:

Accepted Answer

A)  drill and practice on basic procedures. 
B)  problems that relate to children's real-world experiences. 
C)  reciprocal teaching. 
D)  teaching strategies such as inversion. 
A)  drill and practice on basic procedures. 
B)  problems that relate to children's real-world experiences. 
C)  reciprocal teaching. 
D)  teaching strategies such as inversion.

Question 20

When measured by performance on Piagetian tasks, schooling:

Accepted Answer

A)  contributes to general cognitive performance. 
B)  actually inhibits general cognitive functioning. 
C)  does not contribute to general cognitive performance. 
D)  contributes to cognitive performance if the materials used for evaluation are different from those used in school. 
A)  contributes to general cognitive performance. 
B)  actually inhibits general cognitive functioning. 
C)  does not contribute to general cognitive performance. 
D)  contributes to cognitive performance if the materials used for evaluation are different from those used in school.

Very young babies demonstrate the ability to discriminate between different amounts.

What is the deliberate teaching of children to pass on knowledge, information, and skills?

Effective culturally-adaptive instruction for Odawa Indian children included:

A child who decides he is no good at math because he does poorly on a math test is exhibiting:

What methods of education would we be likely to see among the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert?

Schooling influences memory abilities by helping children:

When Mr. Johnson and a small group of students read silently through a portion of text and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning, what has taken place?

Top-down mathematics instruction begins with:

Children who have participated in formal schooling tend to perform better on logical thinking tasks than their unschooled peers primarily because:

Children of immigrant families are the fastest-growing group of children in the United States, accounting for approximately what percentage of all U.S. children?

Helen Raikes discovered that reading and vocabulary lead to more opportunities to use and learn language. She called this relationship the:

Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that involves a low quantitative IQ.

In a study observing Mayan mothers teaching their children to complete a puzzle, Chavajay and Rogoff (2002) found that:

In comparison with working-class Kenyan children or children from Brazil or the United States, Kenyan middle-class children:

When Brandon is asked to count his fingers, he counts each one and says, "three, five, six." These types of errors reveal:

Schools in economically impoverished neighborhoods tend to:

Realistic mathematics education fits with which view?

Bottom-up mathematics instruction begins with:

When measured by performance on Piagetian tasks, schooling:

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Very young babies demonstrate the ability to discriminate between different amounts.

What is the deliberate teaching of children to pass on knowledge, information, and skills?

Effective culturally-adaptive instruction for Odawa Indian children included:

A child who decides he is no good at math because he does poorly on a math test is exhibiting:

What methods of education would we be likely to see among the !Kung of the Kalahari Desert?

Schooling influences memory abilities by helping children:

When Mr. Johnson and a small group of students read silently through a portion of text and then take turns leading a discussion of its meaning, what has taken place?

Top-down mathematics instruction begins with:

Children who have participated in formal schooling tend to perform better on logical thinking tasks than their unschooled peers primarily because:

Children of immigrant families are the fastest-growing group of children in the United States, accounting for approximately what percentage of all U.S. children?

Helen Raikes discovered that reading and vocabulary lead to more opportunities to use and learn language. She called this relationship the:

Dyscalculia is a specific learning disability that involves a low quantitative IQ.

In a study observing Mayan mothers teaching their children to complete a puzzle, Chavajay and Rogoff (2002) found that:

In comparison with working-class Kenyan children or children from Brazil or the United States, Kenyan middle-class children:

When Brandon is asked to count his fingers, he counts each one and says, "three, five, six." These types of errors reveal:

Schools in economically impoverished neighborhoods tend to:

Realistic mathematics education fits with which view?

Bottom-up mathematics instruction begins with:

When measured by performance on Piagetian tasks, schooling:

The Study of Human Development

Biocultural Foundations

Prenatal Development and Birth

The First 3 Months

Physical and Cognitive Development in Infancy

Social and Emotional Development in Infancy

Language Acquisition

Physical and Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood

Contexts of Development

Physical and Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood

Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood

Physical and Cognitive Development in Adolescence

Social and Emotional Development in Adolescence

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