Summarize the main points included in the basic definition of learning disabilities provided in IDEA
What will be an ideal response?
Learning disabilities are disorders in basic processes (such as perception and visual-motor coordination) that lead to learning problems not resulting from other causes. These students have difficulty learning, and a severe discrepancy exists between their apparent potential and their achievement.
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When making the decision to remove a child from a group, the guidance professional asks which of these questions?
A) Should I physically punish the child or permanently isolate him or her from the other children? B) Am I removing the child because of what he did or because the other children asked me to? C) Am I reacting appropriately or inappropriately? D) Will the child calm down more easily if I am near, or will my proximity reward the child and reinforce the mistaken behavior?
Erikson calls the third stage of development the autonomy stage
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
David is addicted to a drug that increases his blood sugar level, temporarily giving him more energy. David always takes this drug in the bathroom. He finds that he becomes tired when he enters the bathroom and also that he needs more and more of the drug to maintain the same high energy level. From the perspective of classical conditioning, which one of the following is the most likely
explanation of David's increasing addiction to the drug? a. Lowering blood sugar level to counteract the effect of the drug has become a conditioned response to the "bathroom" stimulus. b. David has learned to respond to some drugs but not to others through the combined processes of stimulus discrimination and higher-order conditioning. c. Taking the drugs provides negative reinforcement, in that David no longer feels tired. d. Associative bias has predisposed David to associate the bathroom with fatigue.
Although initially boys tended to be more involved in computers than girls, in recent years these
differences have gradually disappeared. Indicate whether the statement is true or false