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| making comparisons between a whole class of objects and subsets within a class |
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| According to Gardner, Mahutma Ghandi exhibited what frame of mind? |
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| During the school years, children develop an increased ability to maintain a conversation and the ability to clarify a message when a listener does not understand. These changes indicate an increased understanding of |
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| Which of the following is NOT a technique used by teachers who adopt a constructivist view of teaching? |
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| What IQ score is associated with mild retardation? |
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| In the first stage of Kohlberg's Preconventional Level of moral development, what is the motivation for acting morally? |
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| During childhood, which area of the brain undergoes dramatic change? |
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| Carrie is 9-year-old girl who is considerably overweight. The most immediate risk for Carrie is |
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| A child who is able to mentally represent an action or object and the actions on it is in the ________ stage of thinking. |
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| Tim is a 9-year-old who can order stimuli along a quantitative measure such as length. Tim's ability to do this is an example of |
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| Thinking that moves in many directions to produce alternatives is referred to as |
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| Which of the following is most likely to have a serious debilitating effect on a child's achievement? |
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| Eight-year-old Jessica is talking on the phone with her Aunt Jennifer. When Aunt Jennifer asks if she had fun at the zoo, Jessica answers by shaking her head yes. What skill is Jessica lacking? |
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| Social Perspective Taking |
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| Emergent literacy is associated with which approach to reading? |
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| Tom is 10-years-old. Which of the following psychosocial crises is Tom likely to be experiencing at this age? |
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| When Jolee receives a poor grade on her science exam, she becomes very upset. Later that day, Jolee decides that one bad grade is not the end of the world and that she has three more exams to improve her grade. What kind of coping is Jolee engaging in? |
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| A pattern of coercive and aversive interactions in which parents back down from their children contributes to |
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| According to Gilligan, women are more likely to rely on which of the following when reasoning about morality? |
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| Formal Operational Thought involves |
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| Scientific and logical reasoning |
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| What are the three phases of thinking involved in hypothetico-deductive reasoning? |
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| inductive, deductive, and testing |
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| Tarsha is 16 and is able to think about her own thinking. This ability is called |
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| Tarsha is 16 and is able to think about her own thinking. This ability is called |
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| Fifteen-year-old Myra angrily exclaims to her parents, "You are so stupid, you don't know anything about me or my life!" This statement is an example of |
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| George, a 14-year-old boy, is getting ready to go out on his first date when he discovers a pimple on his chin. He is devastated and refuses to leave the house because he is convinced that everyone, especially his date, will be disgusted by his pimple. What concept does George's situation exemplify |
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| A 15-year-old girl who engages in risky behaviors is demonstrating |
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| Sixteen-year -old Carolyn spends a considerable amount of time thinking about her friends and her relationships to others. Carolyn's thinking reflects which of the following? |
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| Jason came home from being out with his friends 1 hour after his curfew and was grounded for the following weekend from going out with his friends. Jason was angry, but he understood that his mother was worried and nervous when he didn't come home on time, and he understands why his parents grounded him. This example illustrates |
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| Social Perspective Taking |
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| Compared to high school graduates, how much money do high school dropouts earn? |
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| Which of the following is not a characteristic of effective dropout prevention programs? |
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| strict and rigid classroom instruction |
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| John's teacher told him that his associational fluency is better than it was in the beginning of the year. John has improved his ability to |
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| Able to produce synonyms for words |
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| Spatial Perception involves |
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| the ability to locate the horizontal or vertical while ignoring distracting visual information |
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| the ability to imagine how objects will appear when rotated or changed positionally |
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| Julia is a flight attendant with a 6-year-old daughter. Julia, like many moms, believes that her daughter is not capable of being successful in math classes. On the basis of this information, which of the following statements is true? |
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| Julia's daughter is not likely to remain in advanced math classes and will most likely not choose a career that is mathematically oriented. |
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| Erikson argued that there should be a period of time in which youths are free of adult responsibilities that might prevent them from adequately addressing identity issues. Erikson called this period |
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| According to Marcia's theory of identity development, foreclosure reflects |
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| low exploration and high commitment |
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| James was born into a Hispanic family and then adopted by an African-American family and grew up in a predominantly African-American neighborhood. James grew up identifying with both cultures. Which type of ethnic identity best reflects James? |
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| Which of the following parenting techniques is most likely to be associated with more advanced moral values and higher self-esteem? |
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| Which of the following is not one of the three types of autonomy? |
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| According to the text, constructive autonomy usually is achieved through |
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| remaining connected to parents |
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