Which of the following is not consistent with brain research?
A) Teachers should challenge students to think nonstop throughout the day so that they don't have any time for "mental relaxation."
B) Physical exercise has been shown to enhance the functioning of the central executive.
C) Sleep is important to learning because students consolidate new memories while they are sleeping.
D) Physical exercise is beneficial to the health of the brain.
A
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Refer to Exhibit 6-2. The median of this distribution is
a. 56.5. c. 57.33. b. 57. d. None of these are true.
It is Benjamin Bloom's opinion that many contemporary teachers fail to
a. use higher order objectives that require students to analyze and evaluate. b. use lower order objectives that require students to acquire factual knowledge. c. use frequent examples to make sure students understand the topic at hand. d. effectively use audio-visual media.
Prior to an interview, you should take some initiative to be well prepared. List three strategies you should follow and give an example of how you will complete each one.
What will be an ideal response?
A psychologist was interested in gauging the success of a mood manipulation during one of her experiments. She had three groups of participants who underwent different types of mood induction: disgust mood induction, negative mood induction and positive mood induction. After the mood induction, participants were asked to endorse nine statements relating to their mood (on a 5-point Likert scale from 1 = disagree to 5 = agree): (1) When you’re smiling the whole world smiles with you, (2) I love the pretty flowers, (3) I could never touch a dead body, (4) I would never eat catfood, (5) If someone served me monkey brain soup I would vomit, (6) I feel fed up, (7) Bodily fluids are nasty, (8) I could not drink from a glass that I’d used to catch a spider, (9) I am a worthless piece of scum.
Part of the SPSS output is below. Which of the following statements best summarizes the output?
A. The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to all of the nine items.
B. The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to at least one of the nine items.
C. The type of mood induction had a significant effect on responses to more than half at least of the nine items.
D. The type of mood induction that a person had could be significantly determined from a linear combination of responses to the nine items.