What did researchers determine accounts for the lag exhibited by American students vis-à-vis Taiwanese, Chinese, and Japanese students in mathematics achievement?
What will be an ideal response?
Researchers reported significant differences in childhood school routines and parents' attitudes and beliefs between American and Asian students. In American classrooms, less time was found to be devoted to the study of mathematics, and more time was spent in groups versus receiving direct instruction from teachers. American students spent less time doing homework, and their parents and peers expected less of them than is expected of Asian students by their parents and peers.
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a. Motivation based on a desire to help someone else b. Motivation based on rewards or punishments c. Motivation based on the pleasure of doing the act itself d. Motivation based on a change in some body variable
As we age, neurons are gradually lost, the brain becomes smaller, and information is processed more slowing. For some, this brain atrophy leads to ____
a. enlarged ventricles b. depression c. anxiety d. declining memory
Research about the corpus callosum suggests that ____
a. ?the corpus callosum of females is far less active than that of males, resulting in greater lateralization b. ?differences observed between males and females may be related more to brain size than to sex c. ?certain regions of the corpus callosum tend to be larger in males, resulting in systematic differences in information processing d. ?male-female differences in the corpus callosum vary by culture, suggesting a role for development
The living room of your new apartment seems cold and forbidding, and you decide to remedy the problem by adding color to the decorating scheme. To add warmth to the room, you should consider using
a. yellow, blue, and red. c. green, blue, and violet. b. orange, green, and blue. d. yellow, orange, and red.