For some time, U.S. educational policy was based on the research-based belief that teaching children to recognize whole words was the best way to teach reading skills
As it turns out, this was incorrect. The best way to teach reading skills is to teach analysis and recognition of sound-letter relationships. The mistake was a result of incorrect conclusions based on specific types of research. What error of critical thinking took place?
A) Ruling out rival hypotheses
B) Replicability
C) Occam's Razor
D) Correlation vs. causation
Answer: D
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Bryan is a 13-year-old boy with significant social skills deficits. Which type of group therapy below would seem to be the best fit for him?
a. psychodrama b. transactional analysis c. behavioral group therapy d. none of the above
Sir Thomas Young proposed the existence of only three color receptors. How would he explain our sensation of so many other colors?
a. He could not explain our sensation of other colors, although many years later another scientist did. b. All other colors are additive or subtractive combinations of the colors he identified. c. Our brains "learn" to sense other colors, but only after experience with the first three. d. All other colors were afterimages of the three colors he identified.
A situation in which repeated exposure to a stimulus increases one’s liking of it is called the what effect?
A. Mere exposure B. Proximal disclosure C. Reciprocity D. Proximity