A. are mildly retarded
B. act on impulse and cannot concentrate
C. must take stimulants which shorten attention span
D. are given sedatives which make them listless
Related Mcqs:
- ADHD in children is most often treated with the drug:
A. Haldol
B. Thorazine
C. Ritalin
D. Valium - A test of the capacity to learn a particular skill and to learn within a specific area of knowledge is called a/an ____________________?
A. aptitude test
B. achievement test
C. projective test
D. acquisition test - The ability to learn a new computer software program is to be______as knowledge of state capitals is to______.
A. formal operations; concrete operations
B. crystallized intelligence; fluid intelligence
C. concrete operations; formal operations
D. fluid intelligence; crystallized intelligence - A brain tumor in the hippocampus of the brain would impair a person’s ability to learn new things while leaving their old memories intact. This condition is known as _________________?
A. retroactive inhibition
B. anterograde amnesia
C. proactive inhibition
D. retrograde amnesia - An ability to learn new information and form new long-term memories is called ________________?
A. retroactive amnesia
B. proactive amnesia
C. anterograde amnesia
D. implicit amnesia - The Russian psychologist Vygotsky suggested their children’s ability to solve problems is enhanced by:
A. basic trust
B. egocentrism
C. imprinting
D. inner speech - The ability of young children to use two-word sentences is referred to as __________________?
A. babbling
B. morpheme induction
C. telegraphic speech
D. aphasia - Mentalinguistic awareness refers to which ability in children?
A. The ability to think and talk about language and its properties
B. The ability to think and talk about gender and its properties
C. The ability to read mathematical operations
D. The ability to speak multiple languages - A teacher believes that one group of children is very bright and that a second is below average in ability, Actually the groups are identical, but the first group progresses more rapidly than the second this demonstrates:
A. the self-fulfilling prophecy
B. the placebo effect in a natural experiment
C. observer bias in naturalistic
D. the ethical problems of field experiments - Adopted children’s similarity to their biological parents is generally attributed to_____________; adopted children’s similarity to their adoptive parents is generally attributed to____________________.
A. heredity; the environment
B. the environment; heredity
C. the environment; the environment
D. heredity; heredity
