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ap345 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Three of the following teaching strategies may foster students' acquisition of a theory about phenomena in the natural world. Which strategy is least likely to be effective in fostering students' theory development?

a. Show a diagram of the human digestive system.
b. Ask students to memorize a one-paragraph summary of how mitosis occurs.
c. Describe heat as something that flows from one object to another.
d. Engage students in a discussion about the forces that affect an arrow's movement as it is shot from a bow.

Question 2

Maureen vehemently denies that trees are plants. Her understanding of what a plant is reflects which of the following errors?

a. Overgeneralization
b. Undergeneralization
c. Confirmation bias
d. The misinformation effect