EDF 1005 Quiz 1

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EDF 1005 Quiz 1

Over the past 30,000 years, the basic anatomy of humans has undergone only one prominent change: The human being has stood up to walk on two feet rather than on "all fours."

A teaching contract from the 1920s indicated that

According to surveys, the vast majority of teachers are

Contrary to public perception, most teachers

In the nineteenth century, normal schools provided students with

The program Teach for America

It appears that language-as well as art and religious ritual-became vital aspects of human life only during the past __________________ years, primarily within our own species.

A few chimps and other apes have been taught to use picture symbols or American Sign Language for simple communication

The need to give birth early may have evolved around the time of the Homo species _______________________.

Which of the following is not true about the effects of food production on Human Society:

_______________controlled fire, cooked food, and made better, more diverse stone tools. They got their meat from hunting, and were thus the first human hunters and gatherers. Like all human species, they had extended childhoods required by extensive postnatal brain development.

With a brain 3/4 modern size and further development in speech areas and larynx, _______________________ probably used sounds for communication - not yet what we would think of as language, but a start towards it.

5 million years ago our closest ancestors and cousins, early ape- humans, had split from the other apes.

_______________had only about half our modern brain size and his/her larynx was not well enough developed for speech, but they are the first species known to have made stone tools, and their (for that time) large brain included development in areas now essential for speech

By 300,000 years ago Homo sapiens was hunting game as big as elephants and beginning to emerge with an average brain size of about 1,100 cubic centimeters, and by about 100,000 years ago the current average of 1,450 was reached.

With tools, hunting, communication skills and increasing domestication, modern man, Homo erectus, the most successful of all species of homo, left Africa in several waves from 150,000 to 80,000 years ago and peopled the rest of the world.

During the time of Homo Erectus, primate evolution moved away from litters of offspring and toward single births so that now it is rare for a woman to have more than one child at a time.

l__________________located on the western edge of the Jordan valley in the area now called the "West Bank" and about six miles north of the Dead Sea

Established first school of education in the U.S.

Associated with first state-supported normal school

Which of the following would BEST support an argument that teaching is a profession today?

Teachers in colonial times

The goal of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to

Which of the following is generally considered a positive aspect of the teaching profession?

__________________was influential in creating the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

One reason why teachers with more experience and higher levels of education become frustrated in their careers is

According to Robert Gilman, traditional non-literate peoples managed to pass on complex cultures from generation to generation in largely informal ways that were both efficient and effective.

According to Robert Gilman, in traditional non-literate cultures children learned by watching and imitating, with lots of immersion in the adult world they would grow into.

Education in traditional non-literate, cultures, according to Robert Gilman, was remarkably in tune with whole brain learning

According to Robert Gilman, in traditional non-literate cultures, specialized training, to the extent that it existed, was either through apprenticeship or in special initiation schools, both of which used experience and drama as well as direct instruction

The child pays attention to the way in which his/her parents speaks, acts and solves problems.

The first agents of enculturation in all societies are the members of the household a person is born into.

In the modeling process, the observer expects to receive positive reinforcements for the modeled behavior. This is called retention.

EDF 1005 Quiz 1

Over the past 30,000 years, the basic anatomy of humans has undergone only one prominent change: The human being has stood up to walk on two feet rather than on "all fours."

A teaching contract from the 1920s indicated that

According to surveys, the vast majority of teachers are

Contrary to public perception, most teachers

In the nineteenth century, normal schools provided students with

The program Teach for America

It appears that language-as well as art and religious ritual-became vital aspects of human life only during the past __________________ years, primarily within our own species.

A few chimps and other apes have been taught to use picture symbols or American Sign Language for simple communication

The need to give birth early may have evolved around the time of the Homo species _______________________.

Which of the following is not true about the effects of food production on Human Society:

_______________controlled fire, cooked food, and made better, more diverse stone tools. They got their meat from hunting, and were thus the first human hunters and gatherers. Like all human species, they had extended childhoods required by extensive postnatal brain development.

With a brain 3/4 modern size and further development in speech areas and larynx, _______________________ probably used sounds for communication - not yet what we would think of as language, but a start towards it.

5 million years ago our closest ancestors and cousins, early ape- humans, had split from the other apes.

_______________had only about half our modern brain size and his/her larynx was not well enough developed for speech, but they are the first species known to have made stone tools, and their (for that time) large brain included development in areas now essential for speech

By 300,000 years ago Homo sapiens was hunting game as big as elephants and beginning to emerge with an average brain size of about 1,100 cubic centimeters, and by about 100,000 years ago the current average of 1,450 was reached.

With tools, hunting, communication skills and increasing domestication, modern man, Homo erectus, the most successful of all species of homo, left Africa in several waves from 150,000 to 80,000 years ago and peopled the rest of the world.

During the time of Homo Erectus, primate evolution moved away from litters of offspring and toward single births so that now it is rare for a woman to have more than one child at a time.

l____________________located on the western edge of the Jordan valley in the area now called the "West Bank" and about six miles north of the Dead Sea __

Established first school of education in the U.S.

Associated with first state-supported normal school

Which of the following would BEST support an argument that teaching is a profession today?

Teachers in colonial times

The goal of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to

Which of the following is generally considered a positive aspect of the teaching profession?

__________________was influential in creating the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

One reason why teachers with more experience and higher levels of education become frustrated in their careers is

According to Robert Gilman, traditional non-literate peoples managed to pass on complex cultures from generation to generation in largely informal ways that were both efficient and effective.

According to Robert Gilman, in traditional non-literate cultures children learned by watching and imitating, with lots of immersion in the adult world they would grow into.

Education in traditional non-literate, cultures, according to Robert Gilman, was remarkably in tune with whole brain learning

According to Robert Gilman, in traditional non-literate cultures, specialized training, to the extent that it existed, was either through apprenticeship or in special initiation schools, both of which used experience and drama as well as direct instruction

The child pays attention to the way in which his/her parents speaks, acts and solves problems.

The first agents of enculturation in all societies are the members of the household a person is born into.

In the modeling process, the observer expects to receive positive reinforcements for the modeled behavior. This is called retention.

l__________________located on the western edge of the Jordan valley in the area now called the "West Bank" and about six miles north of the Dead Sea