Which of the Following Tasks Does the Text Indicate as an Important

question 17

Multiple Choice

Which of the following tasks does the text indicate as an important purpose of the White House staff?

• A) Battles the media, while fighting investigations by special counsel
• B) Enhances communication with constituents and the media
• C) Provides information and acts as a management tool
• D) Provides training experiences for future congressional candidates and brainstorms for ways to spin news events to make them favorable to the president

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Definitions:

Cognitive Developmental Stages

Theoretical stages proposed by psychologists to describe the progression of thinking and reasoning abilities as people grow.

Conceptual Frameworks

Structures of concepts and ideas that guide thinking, research, and practice in various fields by providing an organized way to make sense of related phenomena.

Piaget

A Swiss psychologist known for his pioneering work in child development, specifically his theory of cognitive development that describes how children construct a mental model of the world.

Formal Operational Stage

In Piaget’s theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.