Discuss Why Parents Might Want to Label Their Child as "Gifted

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Essay

Discuss why parents might want to label their child as "gifted but with a learning disability". How does this differ from those who are simply learning disabled?

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Definitions:

Generalization Gradient

A concept in psychology and behavioral science describing the decrease in response strength with increasing difference from the original conditioned stimulus.

Discrimination Learning

The process of learning to respond differently to various stimuli, distinguishing between those that are rewarded and those that are not.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was originally conditioned.

Second-order Conditioning

A form of learning where a stimulus that initially had no significance becomes conditioned as a result of being paired with another stimulus that already induces a conditioned response.