Which one of the following examples best illustrates the use of a personally constructed theory as a child learns the concept spider?
a. Julian assumes that spiders give birth to live baby spiders, just as people give birth to live infants.
b. Ian learns that spiders have eight legs, whereas insects have only six.
c. Rudy learns that spiders, along with scorpions and ticks, are members of the arachnid class.
d. Duc remembers what happened when his cousin was bitten by a black widow spider.
A
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What is the prevalence of students with speech and language impairments for students between the ages of 6 and 21 years?
A. It is the largest category of students with disabilities. B. It is the second largest category of students with disabilities. C. It is a low incidence group of students with disabilities. D. It is the third largest group of students with disabilities.
If students fail to reach the accuracy criterion on the first reading of a story, what does the teacher do?
What will be an ideal response?
The most famous work on cultural deprivation in the development of mental retardation is called
A. The Milwaukee Project B. six-hour retarded child C. The Chicago Project D. the cultural deprivation project
Mnemonic techniques are most effective when they are ________.
A. directly taught and practiced B. taught in isolation C. taught out of context D. used by all students