According to figures published by the U.S. Department of Education in 2011, the prevalence rate for learning disabilities in individuals ages 6-21 was
a. 2.5 percent.
b. 3.4 percent.
c. 6.4 percent.
d. 11.5 percent.
ANSWER: b
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a. replicability of reasoning b. logical soundness c. propositional adequacy d. premise specificity
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a. To make sense of their experiences, learners construct knowledge. b. Knowledge that learners construct depends on what they already know. c. Social interaction facilitates learning. d. Learning and development depend on learners' experiences.
When adolescents completed their homework either with the TV on in the background or without the TV on, the group that had the TV on ______.
a. remembered less but had a better understanding of the information they did recall b. remembered less and understood what they remembered less well c. performed better on recall tasks, but had more difficulty with open-ended questions d. were indistinguishable from another group of adolescents who had ADHD
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