chapter 1 &2/4/5 quiz Flashcards
Knowledge about group differences enables us to: Form tentative __________ about instructional __________ that might be effective for different students
hypothesis
strategies
Ten-year-old Svana has recently immigrated from Iceland to the United States. If we say that Svana is undergoing acculturation, we mean that she is:
Adopting some American behaviors and attitudes
When we say that different cultural and ethnic groups have different worldviews, we mean that:
Their basic assumptions about how the world operates may be different
Ms. Youmans has a class of 24 sixth graders—12 girls and 12 boys. Given what we know about gender differences in verbal ability and visual-spatial ability, which one of the following is Ms. Youmans justified in concluding about her students?
Ms. Youmans probably won’t notice differences in the average abilities of boys and girls.
Research on gender differences in students’ sense of self tells us that?
Both boys and girls tend to have greater self-confidence in “gender-appropriate” activities.
Mr. Hudson says, “No wonder Ralph performs consistently well in all of his classes!”
This is an example of what theory of intelligence?
Spearman’s concept of g in intelligence
Lily is 10 years old. She gets a score of 97 on an IQ test. What does this tell us about her intellectual ability?
Lily’s score is about average for her age-group.
Marissa seems to be a “born leader.” As president of the school service club, she can often persuade her classmates to get involved in school and community service activities. Given this information, we could conclude that Marissa has a strength in which one of Gardner’s multiple
intelligences?
Interpersonal Intelligence
The teacher of a sixth-grade class is concerned about the poor academic performance of a 12-year-old student named Nancy. The teacher looks through Nancy’s school records and discovers that Nancy got an IQ score of 80 when she took an intelligence test in preschool. Considering the textbook’s discussion of IQ scores, the teacher should conclude that?
Nancy’s IQ score in preschool is not necessarily a good reflection of her capability in sixth grade.
A research study finds that students who weigh more do better in school. Which one of the following is an appropriate deduction from this information?
a. Parents should feed their children as much as possible.
b. The school cafeteria should decrease the fat content of the food it serves.
c. On average, students who eat more do better in school.
d. There is a correlation between weight and classroom performance.
A. Parents should feed their children as much as possible.
Louis receives a new soccer ball and begins to dribble it in the same way he dribbles his basketball. His dribbling of the new ball reflects Piaget’s concept of:
a. Assimilation
b. Equilibration
c. Accommodation
d. Concrete operations
A. Assimilation
Which one of the following statements best describes Piaget’s view of how children acquire knowledge about the world?
a. Children are naturally disposed to think about their environment in particular ways; in sense, some basic knowledge about the world is “pre-wired.”
b. Children actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the environment.
c. Initially, children unconsciously develop a rather complex but confused view of the world; this view becomes simpler and more straightforward as time goes on.
d. Children repeatedly parrot their parents’ and teachers’ beliefs, eventually adopting these beliefs as their own knowledge.
B. Children actively construct their own view of the world from their experiences with the environment.
From Piaget’s perspective, children are:
a. Most likely to learn when parents and teachers entice them to do so
b. Most likely to learn things that being about desirable consequences
c. More likely to develop cognitively in a formal school setting than at home
d. Eager to interact with and make sense of their world
d. Eager to interact with and make sense of their world
Which one of the following is the best example of Piaget’s concept of assimilation?
a. A kindergartner uses a white crayon instead of chalk to draw on the blackboard.
b. A third grader develops the necessary eye-hand coordination for writing letters.
c. A sixth grader moves to a different school and changes styles to fit the fashions.
d. An eighth grader is discouraged from using the woe awesome to describe everything he sees.
a. A kindergartner uses a white crayon instead of chalk to draw on the blackboard.
Which one of the following children shows signs that he or she is in Piaget’s preoperational stage of cognitive development?
a. Jenny learns hundreds of new words and phrases in only a few months.
b. Jason is able to understand how another boy feels when his bicycle is stolen.
c. Josyln thinks that when a stuffed dog disappears under a box, it no longer exists.
d. Jimmy is able to reason logically about what it would be like to grow old, yet he cannot envi-sion what it would be like to sudden turn into a fish.
A. Jenny learns hundreds of new words and phrases in only a few months.
