Societal norms and appropriate ways of behaving in specific situations are called:
a. moral conventions.
b. personal norms.
c. social conventions.
d. societal expectations.
c
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Jacob is an elementary school student with a learning disability that interferes with his ability to read. His motor skills are poor, and he has trouble staying on task. Based on the experience of most children with learning disabilities, what might you expect to happen when Jacob reaches high school?
a. He will continue to exhibit poor motor skills, and this will prevent him from playing sports and participating in physical education. b. He will become discouraged because his teachers expect him to be more independent and will be at risk of dropping out of school. c. His reading skills will improve as a result of early intervention, but his attention span will still be as short as it was when he was in elementary school. d. He will improve dramatically in all areas and probably will not require specialized instruction by the time he reaches high school.
When all groups in an experimental design are both pretested and posttested:
a. we can check on the effects of pretesting. b. the pretest may affect the posttest results. c. both a and b are true. d. neither a nor b is true.
Can teachers be prohibited from "intimate associations" with students after they graduate?
a. No. Teachers have the right to privacy and may have intimate associations with students who have already graduated. b. Yes. At least two courts have upheld school policies prohibiting teachers from dating former students.D c. It is unknown. No court has ever addressed this issue before. d. No. The U.S. Supreme Court has held several times that teachers have rights under the First Amendment to be involved romantically with former students as long as it does not cause a disruption at school. e. Yes. If the former student is under 21, all states require criminal prosecution of a teacher who engages in intimate associations within this context.
Choose all of the correct alternatives. As sample size increases
a. the relative frequency distribution of means will become more normal. b. the standard error of the mean decreases. c. the standard error of the mean increases. d. the variability among the raw scores decreases. e. the standard error of the mean gets closer to the standard deviation of the population