On Average, Students Who Attend Schools for Gifted Children Have

question 77

Multiple Choice

On average, students who attend schools for gifted children have a lower academic self- concept than students of equal intelligence who attend regular schools with students of widely varying abilities.If we consider research about factors affecting students' self- concepts and self-esteem, we can explain this finding in the following way:

• A)Children who attend gifted programs typically have more assertive parents, and such parents tend to undermine their children's self-esteem.
• B)Having a label of any kind-even the label "gifted"-tends to lower self-esteem.
• C)Identifying a child as gifted requires an intensive evaluation, and evaluations inevitably lower self-esteem.
• D)Children form their self-concepts in part by comparing their own performance to the performance of those around them.

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Definitions:

Thematic Apperception Test

A projective psychological test where individuals are presented with ambiguous pictures and asked to create stories, revealing their underlying motives, feelings, and attitudes.

Validity

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MMPI

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a comprehensive psychological assessment tool used to diagnose mental disorders and assess personality structure.

Adolescents

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