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torybrooks

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Learning Latin will help you learn other school subjects such as bookkeeping because it teaches proper habits of mind. This view is consistent with:
 
  a. the doctrine of formal discipline
  b. specific transfer
  c. the results of Thorndike's research on transfer by identical elements
  d. the view that there is no such thing as general transfer

Question 2

Thorndike asked a group of students who had learned Latin and group of students who had not taken Latin to learn a new subject such as bookkeeping. According to the doctrine of formal discipline, which group should learn the new subject better?
 
  a. students who knew Latin will learn better because Latin fosters proper habits of mind
  b. students who had not taken Latin will learn better
  c. both will learn the same because Latin and bookkeeping do not share any of the same components
  d. the doctrine of formal discipline does not make a prediction



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briseldagonzales

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Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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torybrooks

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


JaynaD87

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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