Why, according to Pinker (1997), do we succumb to the gambler’s fallacy?
a. because independent outcomes are only found in artificially engineered devices
b. because in nature, the past is often the best predictor of the future
c. because natural events have regular time courses and shared causes
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
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What will be an ideal response?
Glasser says students' main complaint about school is that it is too
(a) hard, (b) boring, (c) time-consuming, (d) structured.
Which of the following is most clearly a failure of metacognition?
a. A teacher plans an entire lesson without writing down specific objectives. b. A first grade student becomes curious about why plants need water to live. c. Right and left hemispheres of the brain do not connect through the corpus callosum. d. A student reads a whole textbook chapter, not realizing that he did not understand it.
Many special education students in inclusive settings have difficulty taking notes
due to a. their inferior writing abilities. b. their inability to organize ideas or concepts. c. their lack of listening skills. d. their preference for oral instructional formats to written formats.