The Text Explains That Attending an Excellent Preschool Cannot Have

question 80

Multiple Choice

The text explains that attending an excellent preschool cannot have a great impact on low-income children's later academic achievement because poor children:

• A) have parents who work long hours.
• B) go to substandard elementary schools and live in dysfunctional neighborhoods.
• C) don't have enough to eat.
• D) have parents who rarely care about them.

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Definitions:

Successive Approximations

A behavior training process where closer and closer approximations to a desired behavior are reinforced until the desired behavior is achieved.

Shaping

A method of conditioning by which successive approximations towards a desired behavior are reinforced, gradually guiding the behavior closer to the target.

Contingency Management

A behavioral intervention strategy that modifies the consequences of behaviors to increase or decrease those behaviors.

Implementation

The process of putting a decision or plan into effect; execution.