Why should primary grade teachers use books featuring large type?
a. Young children are attracted to contrasts between small and large objects.
b. Young children have difficulty focusing on small print.
c. Large print helps hold the children's attention.
d. Young children respond better to vivid stimuli.
Ques. 2Which is not a category into which documents can be classified
a. Personal documents
b. Private records
c. Physical materials .
d. Researcher-generated documents.
e. Public records.
Ques. 3Assume that you are a preschool or kindergarten teacher and would like to help your students more accurately assess their capability for performing particular tasks. You consult Chapter 3 of Psychology Applied to Teaching and decide on the basis of the research findings summarized there that you should
a. create a relatively unstructured classroom that emphasizes free play.
b. allow your students to perform the task several times so they can compare their prior performance to the most recent one.
c. ignore the issue until the children are older and in Piaget's concrete operational stage of cognitive development.
d. have your students compare their performance to that of a peer who has done the task correctly.
Ques. 4Special ethical issues that might occur related to qualitative research include
a. guilty knowledge.
b. reciprocation.
c. lack of anonymity.
d. alteration of the research plan.
e. All of these are true.
Ques. 5A four- or five-year-old child who has begun to develop a theory of mind
a. understands that people's behavior is a reflection of their beliefs about the world.
b. can engage in abstract thinking.
c. understands what it means to mind one's manners.
d. is intellectually advanced and a candidate for a gifted and talented class.
Ques. 6Which is more characteristic of quantitative research?
a. The operational definitions of variables are determined before the study begins.
b. The design emerges as the study proceeds.
c. Studies human experience holistically.
d. Human experience is studied in naturally occurring settings.
Ques. 7When five-year-old Mikey brought his brand-new crane to preschool, which of the following most likely occurred?
a. The preschool girls wanted to learn about cranes and how they are used.
b. The other boys were not particularly interested in playing with the crane.
c. The other boys wanted to play with Mikey and were very interested in his new crane.
d. Both the boys and the girls in his class wanted to play with him because gender-based differences in toy preferences are not apparent at such young ages.
Ques. 8Which is more characteristic of qualitative research?
a. Hypotheses are made before observation begins.
b. Assumes that human behavior is context-bound.
c. Subjects are randomly assigned to treatments.
d. The interpretation of data is done at the conclusion of the study.
Ques. 9A four- or five-year-old child who understands that people's behavior is a reflection of their beliefs about the world
a. is intellectually advanced and a candidate for a gifted and talented class.
b. has begun to develop a theory of mind.
c. understands what it means to mind one's manners.
d. is capable of abstract thinking.
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