Mr. Jones, a physical education teacher, notices that some of his students are better basketball players than others. He wonders if having a basketball net at home fosters the development of basketball skills. He gives his students a short survey that asks them if they have a basketball net at home. Sure enough, Mr. Jones finds that the better basketball players are more likely to have a net at
home. He concludes that having a basketball net at home facilitates the development of basketball skills. Is his conclusion appropriate?
a. No, because he didn't conduct an experimental study.
b. No, because his study wasn't conducted in a scientific laboratory.
c. Yes, provided that his students responded truthfully to the survey.
d. Yes, because he used random assignment.
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A student's placement must be reviewed:
A. Weekly if necessary. B. At the teacher's request. C. At least monthly. D. At least annually.
As discussed in Chapter 14, what area of early childhood intervention needs additional evaluation?
What will be an ideal response?
Culture is referred to as
A. traditionally, biologically determined physical characteristics that set one group apart from others. B. shared national origins or cultural patterns. C. the learned behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes that are characteristic of an individual society or population, and the products that people create. D. knowledge and understanding about the other races, ethnic groups, cultures, and minority groups.
Which most accurately describes systematic desensitization?
a. Students learn instructions to develop new thinking patterns and regulate their own behavior. b. Students earn symbols or tokens for good behavior and can redeem them for favored activities or other reinforcement. c. Relaxation training is combined with gradual exposure to an anxiety-provoking stimulus in order to unlearn fear or anxiety responses. d. A time-out system in which students are removed from a reinforcing situation and put into a system in which reinforcement is unavailable.