An intergenerational approach to providing volunteers to a school-age program is
a. a new concept as intergenerational contact for children has been important only in recent years.
b. a benefit in particular to children from nuclear and mobile families who may miss the experience of spending time with seniors.
c. very difficult to achieve and should be considered only as a last resort in utilizing community resources.
d. likely to work best in the inner cities where transportation is not such a barrier.
ANS: B
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a. cooperative learning. b. task analysis. c. scaffolding. d. a functional curriculum.
When we encounter a new experience that does not fit into any of our cognitive schemes, Piaget would say that ______.
a. it throws us into a state of disequilibrium, which feels uncomfortable b. we ignore the information until we can develop the cognitive ability to understand it c. we observe how other people are reacting to the situation and copy their reactions d. we use transductive reasoning to try to make sense of the experience
Self-report measures may collect data on:
a. Feelings b. Abilities c. Attitudes d. All of the above
Which of the control techniques has the most power to insure that extraneous variables do not have differential effects on the different groups in the experiment?
a. Random assignment b. Matching c. Counterbalancing d. Precision matching