Biology Forums - Study Force

School violence is most likely in small schools located in high crime areas, in schools with weak administrators, and in schools with a high percentage of male students.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Ques. 2

Many theorists believe that people have an innate predisposition to learn language. Three of the following provide sources of evidence that these theorists use to support their belief. Which one is not used to support an inherited predisposition to learn language?
 
  a. Young infants seem to prefer listening to human voices over other kinds of sounds.
  b. Children acquire increasingly larger and more sophisticated vocabularies as they grow older.
  c. Children tend to learn certain aspects of a language more easily when they are exposed to it at a young age.
  d. Children tend to acquire many complexities of their first language that are unnecessary for day-to-day communication.

Ques. 3

In a token reinforcement system, an agreement between the teacher and each individual student regarding the exact goal the student must accomplish in order to earn a reward.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Ques. 4

Which one of the following examples most clearly illustrates a cognitive apprenticeship?
 
  a. A junior high school English class is reading Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. At the end of each verse, the teacher describes the visual images and feelings that the poem elicits for him, and he encourages his students to do likewise.
  b. An elementary school teacher gives his students lots of practice doing addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems so that they will be able to solve word problems more effectively later in the school year.
  c. In a high school chemistry lab, a teacher clearly describes the steps she expects her students to complete as they conduct the day's laboratory experiment. She also lists the things that students should do when they clean up after the experiment.
  d. A middle school physical education teacher puts her students in pairs as they practice their forward and backward rolls. She asks the students in each pair to observe each other and give each other feedback about how to improve.

Ques. 5

The situations in which a group consequence system works best are those in which students are motivated to retain the approval of their peers.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Ques. 6

Over __________ states require standardized tests as part of their annual assessment of students.
 
  a. 20
  b. 35
  c. 40
  d. 45

Ques. 7

Which of the following is NOT discussed as one of the uses of standardized testing in the U.S.?
 
  a. to help decide a student's academic placement
  b. to compare the performance of teachers
  c. to compare the performance of schools
  d. to compare the performance of principals

Ques. 8

Three of the following aspects of language development typically appear during the elementary school years or even earlier. Which one are we not likely to see until students are in junior high or high school?
 
  a. Some adherence to social conventions for beginning and ending conversations
  b. Correct pronunciations of all sounds in one's native language
  c. Playful use of words in jokes
  d. Ability to detect subtle sarcasm

Ques. 9

In this system the teacher keeps track of students' behaviors by adding points to a total. The class can work toward earning a desired privilege by trying to amass a given number of points.
 
  a. token reinforcement system
  b. group consequence system
  c. no-lose method
  d. contingency contract system

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