Two-year-old Lizzie encounters a squirrel and calls it “mouse.” Which of Piaget’s terms best describes her thinking?

a) Accommodation
b) Assimilation
c) Immature
d) Sensorimotor


b Lizzie has a scheme for mouse and is incorporating the squirrel into her existing scheme through the process of assimilation. When she realizes that the new object (squirrel) does not fit into the existing scheme (mouse) accommodation will be able to occur.

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The term multidisciplinary means that

a. more than one professional needs to work with children with disabilities. b. the professionals who work with children with disabilities must be very disciplined. c. the schools must employ doctors and other professionals for children with disabilities. d. more than one kind of discipline plan should be used with children with disabilities.

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Briefly explain why the use of mixed methods lends themselves particularly well to single subject research

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following statements is true?

a. The larger the sample size, the greater the sampling error b. The more categories or breakdowns you want to make in your data analysis, the larger the sample needed c. The fewer categories or breakdowns you want to make in your data analysis, the larger the sample needed d. As sample size decreases, so does the width of the confidence interval

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The __________stage of Perry’s Cognitive Development model is characterized by thinking that everything is relative and that no one “truth” exists due to the multitude of variables.

a. Relativism Discovered b. Social Integration c. Commitment to Relativism d. Developing Integrity e. Dualism

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