In class and in your text, you learned about which of the following findings related to children's searching for a hidden toy on the scale model task:

a. children did better at searching for the hidden toy when they were given no instructions than when they were given instructions about how to search
b. children were more successful at searching for the hidden toy when they believed they were searching in a shrunken room
c. children did better at searching for the hidden toy when they were singing while they searched
d. 2-year-olds were actually better at searching for the hidden toy than 4-year-olds because 2-year-olds didn't overthink the task


Ans: b. children were more successful at searching for the hidden toy when they believed they were searching in a shrunken room

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