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Educational Psychology 210 with Williams at University of Tennessee - Knoxville

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Health education affects smoking rates, the prevalence of obesity, and the use of major drugs among students

True, better health = better academics too

Food labels identify caloric sources in food products usually list carbohydrates first

False, calories are always first

As students progress through high school, they tend to improve their eating habits

False, this is the wanted result but actually their habits get worse because of greater freedom in eating

Replacing questionable food items with healthier items in vending machines and the cafeteria at school greatly diminishes food sales

False

Complimenting participants for fitness in an exercise session would likely cause them to report less fatigue from exercise session

True

The one best estimate of one's fitness is body weight

False, cardiovascular endurance is the best estimate (resting heart rate)

An Adolescent male can be overweight for his height and frame but have a low percentage of body fat

True, the person could have a lot of muscle mass which weighs more than fat. This increased muscle increases endurance and fitness

Research shows that high consumption of dairy products decreases the rate of fractures

False, high dairy can lead to cancer in women and men, and is not needed in high doses to prevent fractures

Smokers are most likely to die prematurely from heart disease than form lung cancer

False, 1/2 as many die from lung cancer than heart disease

Youth can give up smoking more easily than adults who have smoked for an equivalent period

False, Children become addicted quicker and have a harder time quitting than adults

All four dimensions of drug use generally show the same pattern of drug use in the U.S.

False, Cigarettes (1) used more on a daily basis and Alcohol (1) on overall use

Social-influence models are among the most effective drug education approaches

True,

Cocaine and heroin represent the greatest long-term risks to life and health of any combination of drugs used in our society

False, Alcohol and Cigarettes use is the worst for LONG-TERM risks

More adolescents experiment with alcohol than with any other addictive substance

True, 70% of students experiment with alcohol

Finding a cure for AIDs would be the most powerful way to reduce childhood mortality

False, the number one death among adolescents is unintentional death

A majority of children wear seat belts on a regular basis

True, 80% of children wear their seat belts, the ones that don't tend to show more riskier behaviors

Boys are more involved in all forms of aerobic and anaerobic exercise than are girls

False, girls are involved twice as much in group exercises in boys, but boys are more involved in competitive activities than girls

High school girls are more likely than boys to have a fiber deficiency in their diet

False, girls tend to diet more than boys therefore having better eating habits. This high tendency to diet leads to girls being more susceptible to eating disorders too

Trans fat has more adverse effect on one's cardiovascular health than any other kind of fat

True, solid at room temperature giving it a longer shelf life in stores

Abstinence-plus programs in sexual education appear not to accelerate the onset of intercourse

True, this program is more effective with sexually active or high risk students compared to others that don't have any experience

Piaget's theory was initially linked to biological conception of development

True, Piaget originally was a biologist and he transferred this notion of equilibrium to cognitive development from a biological one

Piaget's theory proposed that the sequence of cognitive development is somewhat unique to each child

False, this sequence effected each child the same and happened in a definite pattern, but the ages that go along with the theory are not definite to the sequence

A Piagetian preschool experience is likely to involve a lot of teacher-directed activity

False, it would be more of a child-centered approach

The formal operations stage of cognitive development is likely to show the greatest variation across cultures

True, not all cultures have the F.O. stage, but Piaget said that this theory was the same across all cultures. Not all cultures need a F.O. (they don't utilize abstract thought like other societies)

Abstract reasoning first emerges in Piaget's concrete operations stage

False, logical thinking emerges in the concrete operations stage

Conservation is the Piagetian concept that marks the advent of logical thinking

True, this is the first sign of the concrete operations stage

High critical thinkers are more likely than low critical thinkers to attribute their judgements about course notions to personal experience

False, High critical thinkers attribute success to personal ability and pull information from professional sources. While low critical thinkers pull information from personal experience

Synaptic connections in the brain occur in a linear fashion

False, synapses are not chains, but are more like spider webs (with multiple synapses connected to each other).

Social deprivation can affect the size of the postnatal brain

True, deprivation causes a smaller brain, but over stimulation doesn't make the brain bigger

Head Start has produced academic gains that endure all the way through high school

False, the effects of the program stop showing around the 7th and 8th grade

IQ tests provide the best analysis of curriculum-based skills

False, they provide information for what a child needs improvement in or if they need special attention

Verbal IQ scores predict academic performance as well as do full scale IQ scores

False, verbal uses all aspects of what they use in school so they are very predictive of school performance, but IQ tests do NOT predict

Creativity tests primarily measure divergent thinking

True, Divergent thinking is coming up with multiple options for a problem and using those options to come up with an answer. Convergent thinking is one correct answer to a problem

Fluency is the dimension of creativity that provides the best overall index of creativity

False, ORIGINALITY is the dimension of creativity that provides the best overall index of creativity, but fluency is the best, but not overall

Children with learning disabilities tend to very active learners

False, they tend to be more passive and try to memorize everything that the teacher says

Alphabetic coding is closely aligned with phonics

True, word identification and attacking skills go along with these critically

Direct instruction is closely aligned with the notion of immersion

False, direct instruction is more aligned with learning disabilities

The whole language model is generally consistent with a language experience approach

True, they are consistent but not synonymous

The whole language movement has contributed to children's reading more high-interest literature

True, it pushes a lot more reading which leads to the reading of more advanced material

In direct instruction, mistakes usually are corrected with a reminder of the rule for addressing the target task

True

Once children are working in cooperative groups, the teacher's primary responsibility is to answer group questions

False, teachers point the children in the right direction when answering their question. They use controlled floundering as a way to give them the chance to teach themselves

Grouping students heterogeneously is certain to improve respect for diversity

False, is does but not always, their needs to be individual accountability and group rewards for the best improvement

Social skills can efficiently be taught through direct instruction

True, through direct instruction, modeling feedback, and role modeling...

Boys tend to be more assertive than girls, dominating and taking charge in activities

True, boys relate more through activities and are more dominant and competitive. While girls relate more through social situations and tend to be less competitive.

Involving everyone in the discussion is among the most advanced skill in cooperative learning

False, it is one of the most. Empathy, compromise, consensus... are more advanced skills.

According to Slavin's research, working together consistently produces better results than working individually

False, it depends on the reward structure and the types of group mixes. If the groups are all high achievers or all low achievers it will not produce better results.

A cooperative task with specialized individual responsibility most closely corresponds to the STAD framework

False, this is the jigsaw II framework where the project is broken up to the group members and each of them become specialized in that area. After that the students then teach the area they have become specialized in

Within Slavin's frameworks, reward structure is more important than task structure in accounting for group performance

True, reward structure is more important than the task structure

Slavin sees a stronger role for competition in cooperative learning than does Kohn

True, Kohn thinks competition is detrimental to cooperative learning

The performance of students with disabilities is likely to be enhanced by peer tutoring but not by cooperative learning groups

False, they both are equally enhancing

The social desirability phenomenon constitutes the biggest problem in self-report measures of social actions

True, you want to give the answer that seems to be the overall apporval not your actual ideas

The notion of positive interdependence is exclusively linked to joint rewards

False, positive interdependence is your work is dependent on another and anotehr person's work is dependent on yours. It is not exclusively linked to just joint rewards

IN a CWPT session advanced students explain subject matter to the less advanced

False, it does have instances when the advanced student is teahing the less advanced, but the positions are switched and the less advanced student will teach the advanced student

In strcutured controversy students are trained to avoid criticizing others' ideas

False, students are taught to not criticize the person and the goal of structured controversy isn't strictly this

Developement of perspective taking contributes to cognitive problem-solving skills

true

Conflicts are best resolved when they are defined in the smallest terms possible

True, it is easier to find a common ground on a small issue and from their build up to the bigger issue. It is harder to find a common ground on a broad topic

Peer tutoring is more effective for introducing new content than for clarifying content already introduced

False, this is better for quizing peers on material already learned. The students an't quiz each other on material they haven't learned

Adolescent girls are likely to have a stronger attatchment with their fathers than boys do with their motehrs

False, boys are closer to their motehrs than girls are to their fathers. The maternal figure plays a big role with boys and their mothers, while girls and their fatehrs can't relate to each other as well

Meaningful parent-child dialogue is most likely in the context of authoritative parenting

False, this is a authoritarian style of parenting. Authoritative focuses more setting standards with no discussion, wile authoritarian style incorporates child partnership and discussion

Authoritative parents are more likely to emphasize obedience from their children than are authoritarian parents

False, authoritative set standards and are more flexible with discussing things from their children in response, while the standards set by authoritarian style is more structured and require their child's obedience

The notion that weakness in one self-concept area is countered by strength in another self-concept are is most consistent with the hierarchical model of self-concept

False, this is an example of the compensatory model

The nomotheitc model of self-concept provides the most precise prediction os academic performace

False, the hierarchical model is better and more precise becuase of how it breaks down self-concept into specific areas like math and english

Self-concept is better construed as a product of learning rather than a precondition of academic achievement

True, as a product the students gain more self-concept

The notion of BFLPE is highly consistent with the practice of mainstreaming

False, it is not consistent, they are similar in same ways though

High self-efficacy is inextricably linked with an internal locus of control

False, they are not always both present, but sometimes they are linked. One con be present without the other

Cardiovascular risk from adverse emotional states is almost as great as the risk from physical factors

True, emotional states can be a major risk factor that affects physical health

Younger children are less likely than older children to differentiate between effort and ability as casual attributions

True

A primary objective of casual-attribution training is to teach children that their successes are exclusively related to their effort

False, another thing they teach that is related to success is effort put into a task

Low achievers are more likely to attribute failure to lack of ability than are high achievers

True, Low achievers tend to have a external locus of control and see success as a product of luck. High achievers tend to have internal locus of control and see success as a product from their ability and effort

If critical thinking and creativity can be defined in behavioral terms, they are apropriate for behavior study

True

Within the framework of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, defiency needs are the most enduring human motivators

False, defiency needs come first and are easily satisfied. Growth needs are the most enduring and can never be completely satisfied

Extrinsic rewards are bets used to promote academic performance when students' intrinsic motivation for academic work is initially high

False, extrinsic rewards better promote academic performance when intrinsic motivation is initially LOW

Rewarding children for quality of performance is more likely to stengthen intrinsic motivation than is rewarding them for participation in an activity

True, rewarding quality of work rather than participation is going to produce a high self-efficacy

Young children perceive a praised child as smarter than one who recieves neutral feedback for an easy task

true, older children see the praised child as needing additional help, and the teacher is noticing them because they are surprised they got it right

Emotion-focused coping with stress is more strongly associated with good mental health than is problem-focused coping

False, problem-focused shows a good mental health because the person feels they have control over their life

Ability to delay gratification is the most fundamental indicator of emotional intelligence

True

Ritalin has proven to largely ineffective in amelioration tendencies associated with ADHD

False, it is very effective in helping the effects of ADHD

Biofeedback is both highly efficient and effective way of getting children with ADHD off of Ritalin

False, it is a very effective way of getting children off medication, but it isn't very efficient (can take several expensive treatments to show signs of improvement)

The effects of Ritalin on ADHD tendencies tend to be quite delayed

Fals,e it takes 30 minutes to be effective

Females are more likely than males to commit suicide

False, females are more likely to try and commit suicide, but males are more likely to commit suicide (becuase they try with more destructive ways like guns)

Applied behavior assessment provides the most direct information about the situational specificity and generalizability of a student's moral actions

True, it depends on the situation but it can be applied to both situation specificity and generalizability

Environmental educational substantially increases the purchase of environmentally friendly products

False, it only increases the knowledge in industrial pollution, not individual impact

Self-reliance is an early childhood predictor of adult conservatism

False, it is a predictor of adult liberalism

Liberals are more likely than conservatives to see gray areas in controversial issues

True, conservatives tend to see more black and white

Kohlberg believed the sequence of moral development stages tend to be universal

True, similar to Piaget's cognitive developmental stages

Religious fundamentalism tends to be positively related to ethnocentrism

True, because they tend to believe that their ideas are right and everyone else's is wrong

The U.N.'s "Univesal Declaration of Human Rights" specifies that no one can be subjected to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment under any circumsatnces

True, freedom of religion is also specified but some countries ignore this specification

Christain politicism has been positively correlated with environmentalism

False, they are negatively correlated with environmentalism, civil liberties and positively correlated with militarism, blind patriotism, and national security

Research has shown no relationship between the responses to Rest's Defining Issues Test, and Hartshorne and May's Circle Test under any circumstances

False, It is predicted under High Threat and High supervisions

Both constructive and blind patriotism are positively related to an emphasis on national security

False, only blind patriotism is positively related to national security

President Eisenhower claimed that the Military-Industrial Complex is society's strongest protection against tyranny in our society

False, he was worried that it would take over and destory our country

Demographic research on cheating has shown that older students cheat more than younger students

False

All states include the concept of sustainability in their state education standards

False, Vermont does not

Great concern for the environment has been linked to viewing oneself as part of the natural environment

True, the people see them as part of the environment and want to protect it

Oscar Arias' article on support for the developing world indicated that the U.S. spends a similar amount on foreign aid and the military

False, The U.S. spends much more on military along with the rest of the world

Respect for civil liberies and emphasis on national security are positively realted concepts

False, they are negatively related

According to the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, due process is guaranteed only to U.S. citizens

False, it is to all people that are residing in the U.S., citizen or not

Belief in absolute religious truth has been negatively related to prejudice

False, it is positively related

Information in this course showed that political leaders generally want to upgrade critical thinking skills in our schools

False

The U.S. consumes more per person than any nation on earth, with many of the raw materials for what we consume coming from otehr countries

True

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Created: 2011-05-03
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