School Systems Have Widely Differing Practices Regarding the Education of Students

question 14

Multiple Choice

School systems have widely differing practices regarding the education of students with special gifts and talents because

• A)states get different amounts of money based on the number of students they identify.
• B)cultural belief about the existence of giftedness is regional.
• C)the term "gifted" has no clear-cut definition.
• D)systems within a state have more or fewer students from economically advantaged families.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where old information hinders the recall of newly learned information.

Repressed Memories

Memories that are involuntarily repressed because they are linked to severe trauma or stress.

Storage Decay

The gradual fading of stored information in the brain over time, when that information is not used or retrieved.

Tip-of-the-tongue

A cognitive phenomenon where an individual is unable to fully retrieve a word or name but has partial recall or a strong feeling that they know it.