Instructor Chapter 17 Quiz Game

All meaningfui learning that lets the student feel safe requires the educator to create:

• a. risk of peer disapproval.
• b. questionable conditions.
• c. a sense of security.
• d. peer pressure

A morphine-like by-product of laughter that helps handle pain and reduce stress is

• a. endorphins.
• b. hormones.
• c. insulin.
• d. lactose

Teachers who use humor in the classroom will have students who

• a. are unruly, disruptive, and arrogant.
• b. feel less responsive to learning.
• c. think that learning is to be taken lightly.
• d. feel more responsive to learning.

Humor is very individualized and our audience is varied; what may seem funny to you may not be funny to your students; thus

• a. be sensitive; if in doubt toss it out!
• b. use it; someone will get your humor.
• c. don't waste a good laugh; life's too short.
• d. use humor however you wish to.

Ending the week in the same way at the same time, perhaps with a humor session

• a. creates dependency.
• b. promotes security.
• c. is counterproductive.
• d. is laziness on the educator's part

Students take their emotional cues from what they experience in the classroom each day, which

• a. makes the students responsible fbr their own actions.
• b. makes each student aware of each other's actions.
• c. makes the educator the role model and the principal orchestrator of emotions.
• d. makes each student mind their manners and attitudes.

Humor and laughter can be helpful in holding the attention of the learner and also

• a. in the practice of the information presented.
• b. in the retention of the information presented.
• c. in the selection of the certain pieces of the information presented.
• d. in the deletion of the unnecessary information presented

The physiological study of humor and its effect on the human body is referred to as

• a. gelotology.
• b. derksology.
• c. gerontology.
• d. humorology.

The purpose of laughter may be to

• a. seek attention with loud guffaws.
• b. strengthen human connections and relationships.
• c. get rid of sickness.
• d. make fiin of someone else's mistakes

The theory that laughter occurs as a result of an unplanned, momentary impulse is termed:

• a. incongruity theory.
• b. superiority theory.
• c. relief theory.
• d. spontaneity theory