How can families change the environment that creates obesity in children?
What will be an ideal response?
Select less-fattening foods, interact differently with children, encourage children to increase their activity level, find ways to reward children other than with food.
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Why might it be easier for an infant to first make vowel sounds rather than consonant sounds?
What will be an ideal response?
According to This We Believe, all of the following statements are true about curriculum except
A. Curriculum is every planned aspect of a school's educational program. B. Whatever is designed to intentionally support the mission of the school is curriculum. C. Curriculum develops young adolescents' competence in subject areas. D. Curriculum consists of the core subject areas rather than the related arts courses.
In the case of violent student behavior, teachers can acknowledge the student's rights to have strong feelings, offer assistance, inform them of the consequences of their behavior and state that they do not want the student to choose these consequences. It is recommended that the teacher avoid
a. reminding students that they are violating a rule. b. speaking in a calm yet firm voice. c. asking other students to leave the area. d. physically restraining students.
Trowbridge and Cason asked students to draw lines of a certain length for thousands of trials. Some students were given no feedback, some were told "right" or "wrong" after each trial (right-wrong feedback), and some were told exactly how far off they were after each trial (how-much feedback). According to a behaviorist interpretation of Thorndike's law of effect, which group(s) should perform
the best? a. right-wrong feedback group and how-much feedback group should both show the same improvement because both are given rewards and punishments but the no feedback group should not improve b. all groups should improve equally because all get equal amounts of practice c. the how-much feedback group should perform best because it gets more detailed information d. the theory does not make a prediction