Which one of the following statements is most accurate about the effects of peer groups and peer pressure?
a. Peer pressure is strongest in the primary grades, when children first enter school.
b. Peer pressure is strongest during the late high school years, as students approach graduation.
c. Peer groups may encourage either desirable qualities (e.g., honesty) or undesirable qualities (e.g., violence).
d. When a particular peer group discourages academic achievement, members of that group will always achieve lower class grades than they are capable of achieving.
C
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The most productive strategy for developing children's healthy eating is:
a. convincing the district to institute a vegetarian menu. b. eliminating all school lunch programs and have children bring lunches. c. reducing the use of food additives in menus and substitute fruit for sweets. d. banning all advertisements for "fast food" outlets in your area.
When concepts tend to build upon each other in sequential order, a subject is said to be
a. creative. b. participatory. c. cumulative. d. proficient.
A high school student taking a class in Japanese is faced with learning a new symbol system in order to communicate in this language. He remarks to his teacher, "I'll never be able to read Japanese because these symbols all look the same to me!" Obviously, this student's _______________ is/are not well developed at this point in the class
a. discrimination skills b. generalization skills c. perception d. motivation
Sets of interconnected ideas, relationships, and procedures that represent the way knowledge is stored in long-term memory are often called:
a. perceptions. b. stimuli. c. images. d. schemas.