Question: Question: When children engage in play, there is no need for them to receive a sticker or small token to reward them because their play is motivated ________.
Answer Choices:
A) intrinsically
B) by rewards
C) extrinsically
D) externally
Answer: A) intrinsically
Question: Question: Adult participation is critical when using community resources to support initiative for all of the following reasons except ________.
Answer: A) The adult can strengthen the relationship with the child by spending time together
Question: Question: The labeling that results from intelligence tests is problematic because ________.
Answer Choices:
A) it can hinder social and economic mobility
B) it is based on false stereotypes
C) it leads to higher expectations
D) it is based on heredity, not performance
Answer: A) it can hinder social and economic mobility
Question: Question: Ethnicity influences politics because ________.
Answer Choices:
A) ethnicity is always overtly discussed by politicians
B) many political conflicts are ethnic conflicts
C) ethnic groups are the main subjects of political negotiation
D) ethnic groups have equal political power as mainstream groups
Answer: B) many political conflicts are ethnic conflicts
Question: Question: Using the International Phonetic Alphabet, it is possible to record any of the sounds of all of the known languages using approximately how many sound symbols?
Answer Choices:
A) 50
B) 100
C) 500
D) 2,000
Answer: B) 100
Question: Question: The phrase “ethnic group” refers to ________.
Answer Choices:
A) a group that has adopted a social identity based on racial characteristics.
B) a group identity that is forced onto people by the dominant social majority.
C) a group that has adopted a social identity based on a shared cultural heritage.
Answer: C) a group that has adopted a social identity based on a shared cultural heritage.
Question: Question: All of the following help explain racial differences in IQ scores EXCEPT ________.
Answer Choices:
A) racism
B) innate intelligence
C) economic circumstances
D) education
Answer: C) economic circumstances
Question: Question: The two subdivisions of grammar are ________.
Answer Choices:
A) verbs and nouns
B) words and sentences
C) syntax and meaning
D) morphology and syntax
Answer: D) morphology and syntax
Question: Question: Scientifically speaking, race and ethnic groups are ________.
Answer Choices:
A) similar in that both are culturally defined
B) similar in that both are biologically determined
C) fundamentally different in that ethnicity is based on biology while race is a purely cultural construct
D) fundamentally different in that membership in an ethnic group can be changed but membership in a race cannot
Answer: A) similar in that both are culturally defined
Question: Question: Which of the following actions were not associated with President Calvin Coolidge?
Answer Choices:
A) Limits on union organizing and strikes
B) Lower tariffs
C) Decreased regulation on businesses
D) Tax cuts
Answer: B) Lower tariffs
Question: Question: What was a political result of the end of the Great Strike of 1877?
Answer: A) The growing relationship between the Republicans and the industrialists was further cemented.
Question: Question: After encouraging Panamanian rebellion in favor of Panama’s independence from Colombia, Theodore Roosevelt ________.
Answer Choices:
A) paid Britain for the rights to the Canal Zone
B) let Panamanians own and control the Canal Zone
C) took the Canal Zone away from Panama
D) paid Colombia for the rights to the Canal Zone
Answer: C) took the Canal Zone away from Panama
Question: Question: The labeling that results from intelligence tests is problematic because ________.
Answer Choices:
A) it can hinder social and economic mobility
B) it is based on false stereotypes
C) it leads to higher expectations
D) it is based on heredity, not performance
Answer: A) it can hinder social and economic mobility
Question: Question: Communication is synonymous with ________.
Answer Choices:
A) language
B) using one set of objects and events to represent other objects or events
C) the use of signs
D) the use of symbols
Answer: B) using one set of objects and events to represent other objects or events
Question: Question: Which statement about IQ tests is true?
Answer Choices:
A) IQ tests are unbiased, but linguistic biases are not present.
B) IQ tests assume knowledge of upper class practices and values.
Answer: B) IQ tests assume knowledge of upper class practices and values.
Question: Question: Ethnicity influences politics because ________.
Answer Choices:
A) ethnicity is always overtly discussed by politicians
B) many political conflicts are ethnic conflicts
C) ethnic groups are the main subjects of political negotiation
D) ethnic groups have equal political power as mainstream groups
Answer: B) many political conflicts are ethnic conflicts
Question: Question: Racism, the belief that there are a specific number of naturally distinct human races, arose among Europeans in which of the following ways?
Answer Choices:
A) When genetic differences among groups were finally able to be identified.
B) When racism came into question.
C) When European scientists finally collected enough evidence to identify what the natural human races are.
Answer: A) When genetic differences among groups were finally able to be identified.
Question: Question: “I will fight no more forever” is a famous statement made by ________ at his surrender in Montana.
Answer Choices:
A) Geronimo
B) Chief Joseph
C) Sitting Bull
D) Chief Red Cloud
Answer: B) Chief Joseph
Question: Question: The wave of nonviolent protests in the civil rights movement resulted in many of the legislative gains in the 1960s. Which of the following was not true of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Answer Choices:
A) It prevented discrimination in federally assisted programs.
B) It established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
C) It eliminated discriminatory voter tests that prevented African Americans from registering to vote.
D) It provided relief against discrimination in public accommodations.
Answer: C) It eliminated discriminatory voter tests that prevented African Americans from registering to vote.