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What is subtractive bilingualism? Explain with an example. Describe the positive aspects of bilingual education.

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A different type of bilingualism occurs ...

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________ is a mental "workbench" where individuals manipulate and assemble information when making decisions, solving problems, and comprehending written and spoken language.

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If intelligence is assumed to be normally distributed, which of the following would you expect to find in the overall population?


A) more people of high intelligence than of low intelligence
B) more people of moderate intelligence than of high or low intelligence
C) more people of high intelligence than of moderate or low intelligence
D) more people of low intelligence than of moderate or high intelligence

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Which of the following statements about children who are bilingual is true?


A) Children who are bilingual have a larger vocabulary in each language than children who are monolingual.
B) Children who are bilingual are better at analytical reasoning than children who are monolingual.
C) Children who are bilingual are less conscious of the structure of spoken language than children who are monolingual.
D) Children who are bilingual have lower cognitive flexibility than children who are monolingual.

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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Identify the theorist who distinguished between convergent thinking and divergent thinking.

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Anne, a 10-year-old girl, has been diagnosed with ADHD. Which of the following scenarios would have most likely caused this disability?


A) Anne had a high birth weight.
B) Anne has poor discipline at home.
C) Anne was a victim of verbal and physical abuse during her childhood.
D) Anne's mother smoked cigarettes and consumed alcohol frequently while pregnant.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Paul is a gifted pianist. He was always highly motivated to learn and become an artist of consummate skill. According to his mother, Paul always showed an intense and obsessive interest in learning the instrument. He was always self-motivated and never needed to be "pushed" by his parents. What characteristic, as described by Ellen Winner, of gifted children is Paul exhibiting?


A) precocity
B) a passion to master
C) marching to their own drummer
D) vehemence

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Children who have reached the concrete operational stage are capable of ________, which is the ability to order stimuli along a quantitative dimension, such as length.


A) centration
B) seriation
C) reversibility
D) classification

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Violet is teaching her 6-year-old child to write sentences. She notices that, most of the time, if he can't spell a word, he makes up his own spelling. Which of the following approaches should she follow to make her son a competent writer over time?


A) She should be overly concerned about how he forms letters and words and should send him for after-school coaching sessions.
B) She should discourage him from writing so that he knows he must pay more attention.
C) She should give him fewer writing opportunities and instructions so that he improves independently.
D) She should encourage him to apply what he has learned in one paper to another paper.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Sammy, a 9-year-old girl, is overweight. She is constantly teased and tormented by other children in school. Her parents try to cheer her up by telling her that they were also overweight when they were young and even now they are overweight but they don't worry about what others say about them. Based on the given information, which of the following is the primary cause for Sammy being overweight?


A) Sammy spends most of her day playing on her computer.
B) Sammy's meal times are irregular.
C) Sammy does not exercise as regularly as her parents.
D) Sammy's parents are overweight.

E) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

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Sandra is a nine-year-old girl. She was always the last student in class to finish assignments because she could only write slowly, and even then, her writing would be virtually illegible and riddled with spelling mistakes. Her teacher referred her to a psychologist who diagnosed her with a learning disability called


A) ADHD.
B) dysgraphia.
C) ASD.
D) dyscalculia.

E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

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Although Casey scores only about average on standardized intelligence tests, she is street-smart and has excellent social skills and good common sense. Given a problem, Casey will try her best to arrive at a solution. Most of her friends and family appreciate this about her as she seems to be able to find ways to get things done on her own. In the context of Sternberg's theories, she has ________ intelligence.


A) spatial
B) practical
C) analytical
D) interpersonal

E) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

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Which of the following statements is true about cardiovascular disease in children?


A) Cardiovascular disease is common in children.
B) There is no scientific evidence of high blood pressure in children.
C) High blood pressure goes undiagnosed in 75 percent of children with the disease.
D) Behaviors in childhood do not affect the development of cardiovascular disease in later life.

E) All of the above
F) B) and D)

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"What would you do if you could be invisible for a day?" is an example of a question that has many possible answers and fosters ________ thinking.


A) divergent
B) convergent
C) critical
D) oblique

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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Alberta is a school teacher who introduces children to reading by teaching them a rhyme that goes "A for apple, A says ah, B for ball, B says buh," and so on. This exemplifies the ________ approach to reading instruction.


A) whole-language
B) phonics
C) information-processing
D) analytic

E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Three-year-old Jared was taken to the doctor by his parents who were concerned by his seeming lack of attachment to those around him. Jared hardly spoke a word to his parents and would not respond when his parents called out to him. His parents arranged play dates with other children his age so that Jared could mingle with other kids and play with them. However, Jared would instead go to a corner and spend all day preoccupied with bouncing his ball. After a thorough investigation, his pediatrician diagnosed him with


A) fragile X syndrome.
B) ADHD.
C) autistic disorder.
D) ICF syndrome.

E) None of the above
F) A) and B)

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Interventions with children who have a learning disability often focus on improving


A) math ability.
B) right and left brain functioning.
C) writing skills.
D) reading ability.

E) A) and D)
F) None of the above

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Tabitha has a learning disability that involves a severe impairment in her ability to read and spell. She most likely has ________.

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Sergio's mental age is eight, but his chronological age is nine. We would say that Sergio's IQ


A) is 100.
B) is more than 100.
C) is less than 100.
D) cannot be determined from the information provided.

E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

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________ is a severe developmental disorder that has its onset in the first three years of life and includes deficiencies in social relationships, abnormalities in communication, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior.


A) Asperger syndrome
B) ADHD
C) Autistic disorder
D) ICF syndrome

E) A) and C)
F) All of the above

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