As Evidence That African American Children Are Overrepresented in Special

question 32

Multiple Choice

As evidence that African American children are overrepresented in special education programs,one study of programs for the Educable Mentally Handicapped showed the percentage of black students' participation in the districts studied to be

• A)half the white students' percentage
• B)one-third of the white students' percentage
• C)one-quarter of the white students' percentage
• D)double the white students' percentage

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Definitions:

Freudian Theory

A psychological framework developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts as driving human behavior and personality development.

Life-giving Instinct

An innate or natural drive in living beings to reproduce or engage in behaviors that sustain life or promote well-being and survival.

Thanatos

In psychoanalytic theory, it represents the death drive, postulated by Freud as a basic human instinct oriented toward self-destruction and destructiveness.

Eros

In Freudian theory, the constructive, life-giving instinct.