DeVenuto-Prosocial Classrooms-Chapter 6

What powerful forces drive or affect classroom climate?

• Teacher-student relationship quality.

• Providing snacks during a mid-morning break.

• Student-student relationship quality.

• Ability of students to feel and express positive emotions in the classroom.

Reading literature and history can provide learning opportunities for teachers to discuss conflict in the classroom.

• False

• True

What factors can be used to predict prosocial behavior?

• Reading other's emotions

• Ignoring a student's verbal outburst

• Regulating one's own emotions

Mirror neurons are defined as:

• the brain's ability to duplicate information in multiple parts of the brain.

• The brain's ability to counteract a powerful emotion or act by another person.

• Neurons that can respond the same way whether you or another person do an action such as laughter.

• The brain's ability to recall a previous event when triggered by emotions or second encounter.

Reappraisal is an emotion-focused coping strategy that is often one of the best choices when a person cannot change a situation.

• True

• False

Coping strategies are divided into the following categories:

• Activity-focused

• Problem-focused

• Group-focused

• Emotion-focused

Problem-focused coping is:

• Developing multiple strategies to solve a complex problem.

• Trying to change a situation and solve a problem that caused emotions.

• Allowing others to solve a problem for you.

Emotion-focused coping strategies:

• Include seeking professional help to resolve a situation.

• Allow students to talk to a teacher or counselor as many times as needed to resolve a conflict.

• Try to change your emotions about a situation in which you have no control.

The primary means that students learn to regulate their emotions is the attachment relationship with:

• Teachers

• Students

• Parents

• Siblings

Children with secure attachment tend to:

• Have good emotion regulation.

• Answer questions quickly in class.

• Trust others, take on emotionally charged situations with ease, and receive other's emotions.

• Be able to understand other's emotions and feel more sympathy.