You are a principal who is interviewing potential teachers for your school. Because your highest priority is student achievement, you should be most concerned that the teachers you hire
a. de-emphasize "hands-on" experience in the classroom.
b. earned high grades in college
c. have good classroom management skills.
d. discourage the practice of peer tutoring.
c
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A girl who tries to remain very thin to perform in ballet may be delayed in starting puberty. Why? a. Decreased intake of carbohydrates leads to decreased stimulation of the pituitary gland. b. Decreased intake of proteins leads to decreased production of estrogens
c. Increased average heart rate leads to inadequate sleep. d. Low levels of body fat lead to low levels of the hormone leptin.
Ginger has a wonderful job but decides to interview for a position at another company so she can practice her interviewing skills. Ginger is not nervous during this interview because she does not believe her well-being is affected by the outcome. Her emotional experience is best explained by __________ theory.
A. Cannon's central B. James's peripheral C. Maslow's hierarchy D. Lazarus's cognitive appraisal
When Keller and Marian Breland, two psychologists who became animal trainers, decided to train raccoons to drop tokens into a piggy bank, they found that _____
A) food was not an effective reinforcer for the raccoons, and so learning didn't occur B) when given edible roots as reinforcers, the raccoons learned the task in less than ten trials C) the raccoons displayed instinctive drift by rubbing the coins together, dropping them, and rubbing them together again. D) the raccoons showed intrinsic interest in the task and so reinforcement was unnecessary. Incorrect. Reinforcement was necessary to make the behaviors occur.
"It's so noisy! How can you stand it?" remarks Caitlyn as the thruway traffic blares past her friend Dave's ground floor apartment. "I don't even notice it anymore," Dave replies. Dave's reply best exemplifies the concept of
A. attenuation. B. sensitization. C. circulation. D. adaptation.