In discussing adult literacy issues, which of these would be an incorrect statement?
A. Reasons for adult illiteracy include geographic isolation, unusual economic factors, immigration from an underdeveloped nation, and failure to benefit from educational experience in normal school years.
B. For adults, literacy –- both reading and writing – is needed to increase occupational knowledge, to attend to one's health needs, to use community resources, and to understand government and law.
C. It is difficult to determine the exact number of illiterates and functional illiterates in a country.
D. Short-term instruction is sufficient for illiterate and functionally illiterate adults, because -- since they are adults – they learn faster.
D
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John and Bill have both learned that when they whine and complain, their teacher will hurry over to see what's wrong. John's teacher gives him attention every time he complains. However, Bill's teacher gives him attention only on some of the occasions he complains. Both teachers eventually realize that they are reinforcing inappropriate behavior, and so they both stop attending to the boys when
they whine and complain. From a behaviorist perspective, we can predict that: a. both boys will whine and complain even more than before. b. both boys will stop their whining and complaining almost immediately. c. John's complaining will decrease more rapidly than Bill's. d. Bill's complaining will decrease more rapidly than John's.
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and the ______ the value of the t-statistic (t).
a. larger; larger b. larger; smaller c. smaller; larger d. smaller; smaller