Children with a specific learning disability in reading comprehension understood more of what they read following extensive instruction in
a. vocabulary
b. language sounds.
c. memory strategies.
d. computing skills.
a
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What can we conclude about gender and disabilities?
a. In general, disabilities tend to make women and men more equal. b. In general, people with disabilities do not currently experience discrimination. c. Whereas women show great individual variation in the general population, the individual variation among women with disabilities is comparatively small. d. In general, disabilities tend to exaggerate the discrimination against women.
Freud believed that personality development proceeded through a sequence of ____ stages.
A. cognitive B. psychosexual C. biological D. psychosocial
Regarding Freud's theories, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Freud's theory provides numerous ways to explain almost any thought, action, or feeling after it has occurred but leads to few predictions, which makes his claims difficult to test. b. Contemporary psychodynamic theorists do not share Freud's focus on the motivating power of sex and death and see other motives and cognitive factors as of equal importance. c. Freud's idea of the role of a stern or threatening father in the development of a strong conscience in males and his ideas on the development of women have been accepted by contemporary psychodynamic theorists. d. Erik Erikson's psychosocial stages, which cover development from birth to old age, are a modern offshoot of Freudian thinking.
In Kagan's research, infants who were high on behavioral inhibition reacted in which of the following ways to novel stimuli?
a. Low heart rate b. Dry palms c. Smiling and reaching d. Intense physiological arousal