Spending more time in physical activity and less time in academic performance negatively impacts academic performance
a) True
b) False
b)
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You are the teacher in a third grade classroom. You see that the African American children and the white children do not play together and sometimes say negative things about each other. Design an intervention in your classroom to overcome these problems, based on evidence of what kinds of programs work best.
What will be an ideal response?
A staff member at a child care center says to you, "The children at our center range in age from 6 weeks old to 5 years old. I often wonder when their visual perception abilities become fully developed." You can most accurately respond by saying:
a. "They can see as well as you can within 24 hours after birth." b. "Their visual acuity improves dramatically within the first two months and is as good as that of an adult by about eight weeks of age." c. "Curiously, their eyesight is quite good at about six weeks but then temporarily deteriorates over the next few months as the brain undergoes reorganization." d. "Visual perception isn't truly adultlike until age 3 or 4, when the visual area of the cortex matures to an adultlike form."
Horgan found that children who were more conservative (i.e., less willing to take risks)
a. showed generally slower development in both comprehension and production than did less cautious children b. showed slower development in production but not in comprehension than did less cautious children c. made more mistakes than risk takers did d. tended to use more noun phrases than risk takers did
Preferral intervention occurs:
a. After a full evaluation is given b. When parental consent is given c. When special education is not available d. Before professionals request a full nondiscriminatory evaluation