Bibi Goes to a Middle-Class School

question 5

Multiple Choice

Bibi goes to a middle-class school.Her teachers emphasize math.Her cousin goes to school in a working-class neighbourhood and has to do more rote memorization.What is this an example of?

• A) tracking
• B) hidden curriculum
• C) meritocracy
• D) educational bureaucracy

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Definitions:

British Empiricists

Philosophers from Britain who emphasized the importance of sensory experience as the foundation of knowledge.

Transduction

The process of converting one form of energy into another, as in sensory organs transforming physical stimuli into nerve signals.

Sensitization

The process of becoming more receptive or sensitive to a stimulus after repeated exposure to it.

Distal Stimuli

Objects and events in the external world that provide sensory input, as opposed to the sensory signals (proximal stimuli) actually perceived by the senses.