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ACT Aspire Reading: Identifying the Main Point of a Social Sciences Text 1 Views
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Description:
Which of the following sentences best expresses the main point of the passage?
Transcript
- 00:03
All right Another day Another passage No Good morning for
- 00:06
you spires Here we go This one on the social
- 00:10
sciences psychology An excerpt from the science of human nature
- 00:14
by william henry pile Not something you're going to think
- 00:17
you're not getting a divorce is right If i'm working
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- 00:20
my family with a divorce is man's got a gun
- 00:22
i always get the other is not get anything out
- 00:24
of him Going on vacation isn't getting any better Don't
- 00:26
you think I don't get it right over there working
- 00:29
on this thing so they don't frighten me like that
- 00:32
Not only are the sort of thing going on over
- 00:33
there ben e okay alright Nobody skims like the people
- 00:38
here from all right Which of the following senses best
- 00:40
expresses the main point of the passage The goal of
- 00:47
this entire passages to illustrate not only how but also
- 00:51
how strongly concept's become linked in the brain That or
- 00:56
well this guy just really likes horses Who knows Well
- 00:59
we've got three answer choices here that air True but
- 01:02
wrong It's all about being the main point of passage
- 01:05
Let's think about this horse is just the example The
- 01:08
author uses the theories that all ideas can be associated
- 01:12
with other ideas and that the associations are different based
- 01:16
on experience or supporting ideas to the main idea which
- 01:20
is that ideas become associated with other ideas based on
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experience So that's it The answer's right there It's cnn
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