Which one of the following students is definitely demonstrating automaticity in word recognition?
a. When Samantha reads aloud, her voice lacks expression.
b. When Roland reads, he has to sound out most of the words.
c. When Kristen reads, she recognizes words by sight and recalls their meanings instantaneously.
d. When Werner listens to someone say a new word, he closes his eyes and tries to imagine how it might be spelled.
c
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Social learning theory can best be characterized as being concerned with:
a. Acquisition of communication skills b. Acquisition of socially appropriate behaviors c. How children learn through observing what others do d. The influence of large groups on children's thoughts and behaviors
Three of the following are assumptions that underlie contemporary cognitive theories of learning. Which one is not such an assumption?
a. Mental events can be studied indirectly by observing behavior. b. Humans often learn by relating new information to what they already know. c. Researchers can study mental events only by abandoning objectivity. d. Humans sometimes learn differently than other species do.
Servio is particularly interested in how families react to an initial learning disability diagnosis. Unfortunately he needs more participants than there are actual new diagnoses in his school. Therefore, in the design of his study he proposes to tell parents that their children have been tested and diagnosed as learning disabled and will conduct an interview with the parents to get their initial reactions. However, the children will not have been diagnosed. His advisor tells him that he cannot conduct the study. Of the following what is the likely reason why.
a. The study is too broad. b. The study is not ethical. c. The study is not relevant. d. The study is too narrow.