Psychology
12: Introduction to African American
Psychology
Quiz for
March 10, 2009: Chapter 7 – Cognition,
Learning and Language
Your Name:
________________________________
1. Knowledge
kept to oneself is as useless as a candle burning in a(n):
a. Empty village
b.
c. Tree
d. Drum
e. Pot
2. Early
studies of African American cognition (for example, Peterson, 1923), concluded,
that, on average:
a. Whites were
smarter than Blacks
b. Blacks were
smarter than Whites
c. Blacks and
Whites were about equal in intelligence
d. Intellectual
differences between races were mostly due to social class
e. All of the
above
3. According to
an Africentric framework, what form of knowledge is
the basis of all knowledge?
a. Religious
b. Oral
traditions
c. Objective
d. Self
e. External
4. In a school
setting, African American children are more likely to attend to:
a. The quality
of the environment
b. Desks
c. Blackboards
d. Chairs
e. Teachers
5. At least
____ percent of African Americans speak some form of African American English.
a. 100
b. 80
c. 60
d. 40
e. 20
6. Robert
Williams (1997) coined a term to refer to Black English. That term is:
a. Ebonics
b. Pidgin
c. Creole
d. African
American Vernacular English
e. African
American dialects
7. Two landmark
cases spoke directly to the consideration of Black language in teaching. One case was in
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
8. “I ain’t got no
money” is an example of
a. Zero copula
b. Use of the
verb be to express habitual action
c. Lack of
subject-verb agreement
d. Zero past
tense
e. Multiple
negation
9.
In turning a word into its opposite, the example in the text
was where the word ____ is used to denote something that is really good.
a. Bad
b. High
c. Bomb
d. Waste
e. Pit
10.
African Americans who are more likely to prefer speakers of
Black English, over speakers of Standard English, are more likely to be:
a. College
educated
b. Older
c. Younger
(junior high school age)
d. Teachers
e. None of the
above