______ is the practice of advancing children to the next grade even when they have not met the required academic standards.
A. Child-centered progression
B. Head Start
C. Achievement motivation
D. Social promotion
Answer: D
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Pete has a Ph.D. in the performing arts, but he has been working at odd jobs for years to survive. He has had little success as an actor and resents the fact that success has eluded him. He blames his failure on the fact that he is a heterosexual in what he believes is a homosexual-dominated business. His resentment has blossomed into a full-blown hatred of homosexuals. The development of Pete's prejudice is best explained by the __________ hypothesis.
A. interpersonal conflict B. frustration-aggression C. conformity D. hostility/aggression
Several measures are already available that assess coping skills. In order to prove that a new measure of coping is needed, what type of validity evidence should be provided?
a. convergent b. discriminant c. discrete d. predictive
Murray is a child with allergies who has respiratory attacks that make breathing very difficult. These attacks often occur at night and when his parents have had a fight. Murray is probably suffering from ____
a. angina pectoris c. essential hypertension b. asthma d. posttraumatic stress disorder
IQ and other tests of intellectual abilities are the product of the testing, called the
a. theory of multiple intelligences. c. psychometric approach. b. triarchic theory of intelligence d. whole-language approach.