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| what do food labels identify first? Is it the most important to weight loss? why or why not? |
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| calories, no, low calorie diets don't help you with long term weight loss |
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| how does education affect smoking, obesity and the use of major drugs? |
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| it gives students information about the effects and stops them from smoking, using drugs and eating unhealthy foods |
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| as students get older what happens to their eating habits? |
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| they get worse, they eat more junk food as they get older, older students also dont eat breakfase |
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| as students get older what happens to their eating habits? |
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| they get worse, they eat more junk food as they get older, older students also dont eat breakfast |
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| if you replace unhealthy foods with healthy ones in schools does what to food sales? |
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| they stay the same or go up |
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| what is the self fulfilling prophesy? |
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| thinking youre good at something means youll do better at it |
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| what is the best estimate of fitness? |
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| resting and recovery rates or endurance |
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| why is body weight not a good estimate of health? |
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| someone can be overweight even though they have very little body fat and a lot of muscle |
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| does milk help fractures? what can too much calcium cause? |
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| no, it can cause ovarian and prostate cancer |
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| what are two deadly diseases one can get from smoking? |
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| lung cancer, heart disease |
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| can youth or adults give up smoking more easily if they have been smoking the same amount of time? |
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| adults- youth become more addicted more quickly |
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| between marijuana, alcohol and cigarettes, which is most used and abused by youth? |
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| cigarettes are more likely to be used daily |
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| teaches students how to deal with peer pressures to use drugs |
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| what represents the greatest long term risks to life of any drugs in out society |
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| what drugs do adolescents experiment with most? |
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| alcohol- 70%, tobacco- 50% |
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| what causes the most childhood deaths? |
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| boys are involved more in all physical activity than girls except... |
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| aerobic activity like yoga |
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| do boys or girls have better food choices? |
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| girls- they are also more likely to have eating disorders |
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| which is more effective in preventing pregnancy and STIs, abstinence only vs abstinence plus? |
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| in Piaget's theory, what is different for each child, what stays the same? |
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| the rate at which children go through the stages, not the order of the stages |
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| what should you do to get your child to the next stage in Piaget's theory? |
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| scaffold, student based teaching, let them interact with children who are at the next stage |
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| what stage in Piaget's theory has the most variation across cultures? why? |
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| formal operational- some cultures dont need to reach it because they do not need to use abstract thought |
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| what marks logical thinking of the concrete operational stage? |
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| high critical thinkers are more likely to use what to make judgments? low critical thinkers? |
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| high- professional sources, low- personal experience |
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| do synapses connect with one or many neurons? |
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| many- its like a branch, not a line |
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| deprivation vs. enrichment- effects of each. which one makes the most difference? |
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| deprivation can effect the size of the brain and enrichment only helps you reach your full potential, deprivation can hurt more than enrichment can help |
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| what does head start help? how long does it effect the student? |
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| social and health aspects more than academically. effects last until around 8th grade |
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| what provides the best analysis of curriculum-based skills? |
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| curriculum based tests- helps you test specific information that the child needs to know |
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| what does a low verbal IQ test mean? |
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| you might have a learning disability |
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| what dimension of creativity provides the best overall index of creativity? |
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| what are some problems children with learning disabilities face in school? |
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| they try to memorize instead of understanding, they have trouble dealing with multiple concepts at once and they are bad note takers |
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| direct instruction vs immersion |
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| direct instruction- specifically telling you how things work. includes teaching and correction. immersion- naturally learning like how we learn to talk- also called whole language |
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| once children are in groups, what is the teachers primary responsibility? |
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| getting children to stay on task and floundering |
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| is individual accountability or group accountability better? |
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| how should social skills be learned? |
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| a combination of direct instruction and immersion |
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| in self report students put what they want to be rather than how they actually are |
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| what happens in a CWPT session? |
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| one student asks questions and then they switch |
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| debate without criticizing the person |
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| how are conflicts best resolved? |
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| seeing the problem in the smallest terms possible to find common ground |
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| boys vs girls in relationships with mother and father |
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| mothers have a stronger relationship with both boys and girls than either do with their fathers |
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| communication- rules and understanding |
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| how should you encourage students? |
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| after they achieve something. before gives them a false sense of smartness or whatever |
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| internal locus of control is linked with high or low self-efficacy? |
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| what contributes to cardiovascular risk as much as physical factors? |
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| do younger or older children differentiate more between effort and ability? |
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| older children- more effort means youre not as smart |
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| high achievers attribute successes to what? failures? low achievers? |
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high- success to ability/effort failure to lack of effort
low- success to luck failure to lack of ability |
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| put into numbers so you can measure something |
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| when are extrinsic rewards needed? what is the best way to use them? |
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| when intrinsic motivation is low, linked to the activity- random |
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| if you praise a young child, will children perceive the child as smarter or stupider? |
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