According to behavioral learning theory, a person's motivation to engage in a particular activity is a function of:

a) the perceived difficulty of the activity.
b) the type of attributions the person has made in response to past failures.
c) an individual's self-esteem needs.
d) the degree to which the activity was reinforced in the past.


d Behaviorist theory says that behaviors that have been reinforced in the past are more likely to be repeated tan are behaviors that have not been reinforced.

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A teacher puts a word on the board and calls on every student in the class to think of a word that is associated with the term. This teacher is probably in the first stages of conducting the activity

A) ?Anticipation guide B) ?K-W-L C) ?factstorming D) ?What-I-Know

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Reggio Emilia schools in Italy focus their curriculum on

a. reading and writing. b. the decorative pictures that children draw. c. visual representation such as drawing. d. storytelling.

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Where did Bailey first work after his graduation in 1979?

Go to the Biography Resource Center database. Click Biographical Facts Search under Other Searches. When the search form page opens, click on View Occupation Terms, click on S, and choose Social services administrator which appears in the Occupation List. From the Nationality search box, choose American. From the Gender search box, choose Male. From the Birth Year search box, click is after and type in 1950. Click on SEARCH. Click on Gary Bailey. Read the article and then answer the questions. What will be an ideal response?

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How is schema theory related to reading comprehension?

What will be an ideal response?

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