Which high school is the most likely to help its students adjust to the school transition?
A) North High, which emphasizes good grades over mastery
B) East High, which provides homerooms that offer counseling
C) West High, which randomly assigns students to all classes
D) South High, which has large freshmen classrooms of 40 or more students
Answer: B
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A. difficult to teach until children reached the seventh grade B. easily learned by children by the end of one year of training C. developed more fully in children trained from fourth through sixth grade than children who were new to the forecasting problems in the seventh grade D. not easily generalized to other types of problems such as using evidence to forecast avalanches
Which scenario best illustrates the concept of adaptation?
a. Plant “A” produces either large fruit or small fruit; farmers breed only the large fruit plants, causing them to outnumber the small fruit variant. b. Plant “B” has a rare waxy leaf variant; as the environment becomes more arid, the waxy leaf variant becomes more prevalent. c. Plant “C” has a genetic mutation that creates a taller variant; this variant is able to survive and reproduce. d. Plant “D” has a recessive allele that causes a higher rate of photosynthesis; plants with this phenotype have a higher energy reserve.
Which of the following can be used in response cost procedures?
a. activity punishers b. tangible reinforcers c. conditioned responses d. aversive stimuli
Unicorns have an average IQ score that is 10 points higher than centaurs. Given this information, what is the most accurate statement about the intelligence of a particular unicorn and a particular centaur??
a. ?The unicorn is smarter than the centaur. b. ?We can't make any conclusions about their intelligence. c. ?There is no difference in their intelligence. d. ?The centaur is smarter than the unicorn.