The Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes That Provide the Building Blocks

question 6

Multiple Choice

The knowledge, skills, and attitudes that provide the building blocks for learning how to do math are known as:

• A) emergent literacy.
• B) emergent numeracy.
• C) decoding.
• D) top-down processing.

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Definitions:

Placebo Effect

A phenomenon where an improvement in health or wellbeing is observed after receiving a treatment that has no therapeutic value, due to the individual's belief in its efficacy.

Illusory Correlation

refers to the cognitive bias where a relationship between two variables is perceived to exist when no such relationship actually exists.

Double-Blind Procedure

A experimental setup in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, preventing bias in the results.

Illusory Correlation

The cognitive bias of perceiving a relationship between two variables even when no such relationship exists.