Only one of the following statements about children with special needs is true. Which one is false?
a. Because they learn so quickly, children who are gifted rarely use effective study strategies.
b. Some students with social or behavioral problems have few effective strategies to help them learn academic subject matter.
c. Students who show significant delays in general cognitive development also show delays in metacognitive development.
d. Students with learning disabilities often benefit from explicit instruction about effective learning strategies.
Question 2
Which one of the following is the best example of positive transfer?
a. Robert is trying to learn the spelling of the word shepherd; he remembers how he learned to spell lighthouse by putting two words together and so writes sheepherd.
b. Vince notices that rules of grammar are not always the same in English and Japanese.
c. Zelda uses the formula for calculating the area of circles when she wants to figure out how much bigger a 10-inch pizza is than a 7-inch pizza.
d. David is trying to learn to program a computer. He reads his programming manual but is confused by some of its instructions.
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