Describe what is meant by the statement, "America is ambivalent toward students with special gifts or talents."
What will be an ideal response?
In American culture, it is difficult to elicit sympathy and next to impossible to arrange sustained public support for education that meets the needs of gifted and talented students. American societyseems to enjoy the good things that people with extraordinary gifts produce, but dislike acknowledging superior intellectual performance. People argue that it is un-American to segregate students to give them extra instruction and resources.
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Select the true statement concerning imagery
a. it is based on information from memory b. it relies on much of the same neural machinery as perception c. it need not be restricted to the auditory domain d. all of the above
What are intervention programs? What elements might be included in an intervention program for it to be as effective as possible?
What will be an ideal response?
A procedure in which the perceptual reinforcement from an activity is masked or removed is
a. overcorrection b. timeout c. sensory deprivation d. satiation e. sensory extinction