Mr. Peralta has a student in his class who engages in severe tantrum behavior. He is working with the special education teacher and the behavioral support specialist on some strategies to reduce the severity of the tantrums. Each time a tantrum occurs, he records the length of time that it lasts to determine any change in the behavior. This type of sampling is called:
A) Event sampling.
B) Duration sampling.
C) Interval sampling.
D) Behavior sampling.
B
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A situation in which individuals have inaccurate insight into the nature of their behavior, attributing their successes to external factors such as luck and attributing their failures to internal factors such as a lack of effort or ability, is called
A. learned helplessness. B. a behavior deficit. C. a metacognitive deficit. D. a social skill deficit.
Which of the following is a cultural and linguistic diversity barrier to successful collaboration?
A.educators’ lack of time to collaborate B.parents’ lack of English skills C.educators’preference for parent-initiated communication D.parents’ struggle to fulfill family obligations
In the text, the authors discuss both traditional and alternative methods of teacher preparation. Based on what you have learned, do you favor the traditional approaches to teacher education or do you think that the alternative programs are more effective? Be sure to support your arguments with specific examples and analysis.
What will be an ideal response?
A researcher records the following times (in seconds) that it took a group of mice to complete a maze: 23 ± 4.1 (M ± SD). The top 10% of mice finishing with the fastest times will be placed in a “maze bright” group. What is the cutoff time to be placed in this group?
A. 17.75 s B. 28.25 s C. faster than 16 s D. There is not enough information to answer this question.