In Walter Mischel's "marshmallow test", four-year-olds must wait for a period of time without eating the marshmallow in front of them in order to receive a second marshmallow. What are some long term associations that have been found with this ability to delay gratification in young children?

What will be an ideal response?


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Which of the following accurately describes the curriculum Standards of Principles and Standards for School Mathematics?

a) The Standards should be addressed by every child, every year. b) Each Standard represents a mathematics course for the curriculum. c) Three Standards are processes, and five Standards represent content. d) Use of Technology is one of the process Standards. e) The Standards are written so that different students will address different topics, depending on their ability levels.

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Which of the following is NOT a line of evidence demonstrating the importance of scaffolding for cognitive development?

a. Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioral scaffolding adequate for a child's development are significantly associated with subsequent outcomes of cognitive development. b. Scaffolding is a crucial part in planning intervention. c. Studies of the long-term effects of intervention indicate that without adequate duration of a program and without adequate scaffolding after the program, cognitive gains tend to disappear. d. Scaffolding has been shown to be paramount in developing schematic internalizations.

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Classroom observation

A. primarily employs formal measures. B. uses checklists (also called rating scales) as the assessment instrument, rather than standardized tests. C. can serve as a form of performance assessment, if undertaken systematically and used to carefully identify patterns of a student's significant reading behaviors. D. is best accomplished by someone other than the classroom teacher (e.g., a school psychologist, a school principal, a curriculum supervisor, a special education consultant, etc.) because of biases inherent in analyzing behaviors in your own classroom.

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