What is the primary purpose of an ‘advance organizer'?

What will be an ideal response?


Advance organizers include information presented verbally and/or visually that make content more understandable by putting it within a more general framework.

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The first nation to pass same-sex marriage legislation by popular vote was

a. the United States. b. South Africa. c. Ireland. d. Greece.

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Which of the following represents positive reinforcement?

a. A student studies hard for a long enough period of time to receive money from his parents for a new bicycle. b. A child who has a tendency to be boisterous in class responds to praise for good behavior from his teacher by continuing to sit quietly. c. A man competes with his coworkers for an office bonus by working an extra two hours each day. d. A young mother quietly closes the bedroom door on her three­year­old child, who is having a temper tantrum, so that she can have some peace and quiet.

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When an adolescent develops an identity that is opposite to the identity that parents or other adults would want the adolescent to have, the adolescent has developed a(n)

A. diffused identity. B. negative identity. C. foreclosed identity. D. identity crisis.

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In his studies of how children's thinking and reasoning change with age, Piaget conducted a variety of studies involving conservation of a substance or of a particular set of objects

a. What did he mean by the term conservation? b. Describe an example of a conservation task and the kinds of responses that children in Piaget's preoperational and concrete operations stages are likely to give. c. Describe a specific way in which a child's ability to conserve is essential for learning in either mathematics or science. What will be an ideal response?

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