A high school student taking a class in Japanese is faced with ...

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A high school student taking a class in Japanese is faced with learning a new symbol system in order to communicate in this language. He remarks to his teacher, I'll never be able to read Japanese because these symbols all look the same to me Obviously, this student's _______________ is/are not well developed at this point in the class.
 
  a. discrimination skills
  b. generalization skills
  c. perception
  d. motivation

Question 2

To encourage his students to thoroughly learn the material and be critical thinkers, Mr. Montoni writes most of his test questions to be more difficult than the ones he assigns for homework and that they discuss in class. This is an
 
  a. acceptable testing practice because those who take the time to fully learn the material will be able to correctly answer most of the questions.
  b. acceptable testing practice because it will motivate students to study more than they otherwise would.
  c. unacceptable testing practice because teachers who want students to be able to answer more difficult questions need to teach them how to answer those types of questions.
  d. unacceptable testing practice because it inflates test scores.

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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C