How does a developmentally appropriate educational practice improve young children's development?
What will be an ideal response?
Some researchers have found that young children in developmentally appropriate classrooms are likely to feel less stress, be more motivated, be more socially skilled, have better work habits, be more creative, have better language skills, and demonstrate better math skills than children in developmentally inappropriate classrooms. However, not all studies find DAP to have significant positive effects.
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Which of the following statements best exemplifies recent research on the genetic etiology of bipolar and other disorders?
A. Schizophrenia is more common in those with bipolar I than those with bipolar II. B. The genetic risks for bipolar I and bipolar II reveal very few similarities. C. Genes account for 50 percent of the variance in the development of bipolar I disorder. D. Relatives of a person with unipolar major depression are at greater risk for bipolar disorder.
You are hiking through a national forest when something moves under the leaves ahead and to your left. You then see the creature and determine that it is indeed a poisonous snake. Deciding how you will react and avoid getting bit is known as
a. primary appraisal. b. the adaptation phase. c. secondary appraisal. d. the reactive plan stage.
Tranquilizers like Xanax work to diminish anxiety symptoms by stimulating the receptor sites for _____, thereby driving down neuronal activity at those sites
A) glutamate B) serotonin C) acetylcholine D) GABA
Which method of cell reproduction allows for more genetic "variability?"
a. cloning c. cross-fertilization b. meiosis d. mitosis