Appreciating diversity involves:
a. Truly valuing other people involves respecting and appreciating someone for their unique person and background.
b. Taking part in cultural festivals and holidays
c. Asking someone of a different background how and why they do things differently in order to learn more about them
d. All of the above
Question 2...How do negative attitudes towards cultural differences primarily develop in young children?
a. Through learned negative messages and models of prejudice or discrimination in their environment.
b. Children don't have negative attitudes about differences.
c. There is a natural inclination towards a negative attitude.
d. Children are pressured by their teachers who have learned the negative attitudes from their parents.
Question 3...Which of the following outcomes was NOT found in The Bucharest Early Intervention Project?
a. All of the children who were deprived of sensitive interaction with caregivers their first year of life demonstrated physical, cognitive, and social-emotional impairment throughout their lives.
b. The brain has the capacity to compensate and self-correct from detrimental early experiences, but neuroplasticity decreases as the frequency, chronicity and intensity of the negative experience increase.
c. Children deprived of sensitive interactions with caregivers for their first several years of life were found to have impaired brain activity and more psychiatric disorders than children who were never institutionalized.
d. Institutionalized children who were placed in sensitive foster care before their second birthday showed higher IQ scores and other positive gains than those who remained institutionalized.
Question 4...This comment is an example of which kind of response to diversity: I've never seen the traditional Indian foods Ada brings in her lunch before. This weekend I want to go to the Indian market downtown and try some new recipes.
a. Stereotyping
b. Tolerating
c. Appreciating
d. Accepting
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