Which statement about ability grouping is true?
A. At least into middle school, grouping students by ability is desirable.
B. By high school, some grouping is unavoidable.
C. Students placed in low academic tracks nevertheless have equal access to advanced courses.
D. Ability grouping in high school tends to counteract educational inequalities present in earlier years.
Answer: B
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Regarding spatial behavior, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Since spatial behavior is very consistent, you can learn about your relationship to others by observing the distance you comfortably hold between yourselves. b. In many Middle Eastern countries, people hold their faces only inches apart while talking. c. When people have different cultural norms for personal space, misunderstanding can occur with one person feeling that the other is being too familiar and the other who is moving closer feeling rejected. d. In Western Europe, the French sit closer together when conversing than the English do.
Ginny thinks she hears a husband physically abusing his wife. However, she does not call the police because she is afraid that her neighbors will ostracize her if she is wrong. Ginny's failure to act is a case of
a. negative state relief. b. audience inhibition. c. empathic concern. d. pluralistic ignorance.
Exorcism involves ____
a. increasing one's activity level to help recover from a mental illness b. chipping a hole in the skull of a person believed to be possessed by demons c. conducting a religious ceremony over a person to cast out evil spirits d. examining the brains of people who have severe mental disorders
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Contrary to the prevailing myth, 96% of people with Down syndrome report being happy with their lives. 2. Whites typically outscore Blacks on intelligence tests. 3. Men tend to outscore women in abstract mathematical and scientific domains of intelligence. 4. Women tend to outscore men on tests that require transformations in visual or spatial memory. 5. Women tend to outscore men on tests of verbal comprehension.