According to Cushner, McClelland, & Safford (2003), what is the purpose of socialization is ______.
a. to teach the learner those habits of mind and action that will make him or her a loyal and functional member of a particular group
b. to teach the learner the stereotypes and biases of their particular cultural group
c. to train all learners to meet the expectations of the dominant culture
d. to recruit learners for a particular cultural group
Ans: a
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a. Children who attend gifted programs typically have assertive parents, and such parents tend to undermine their children's self-esteem. b. Having a label of any kind—even the label "gifted"—tends to lower self-esteem. c. Identifying a child as gifted requires an intensive evaluation, and evaluations inevitably lower self-esteem. d. Children form their self-concepts in part by comparing their own performance to the performance of those around them.
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a. once a child can hold a book and focus eye movement left to right. b. when a child can say the alphabet. c. after a child can recognize 20 sight words. d. in infancy through warm relationships with adults and books.