More American college students than Chinese students were able to solve the cave problemby recalling the “Hansel and Gretel” story, while more Chinese students than American students solved the statue’s weight problem by recalling the “weighing of the elephant” fable. These differing percentages illustrate all of the following EXCEPT that
a. The culture we grow up in affects our ability to use selective comparison to solve problems.
b. Being exposed to a similar problem is the past helps the students’ problem solving.
c. Both groups of students exhibited functional fixedness regarding the stories they hadheard in childhood.
d. Every culture prepares its members to solve some types of problems more easily than others.
c. Both groups of students exhibited functional fixedness regarding the stories they hadheard in childhood.
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a. It is the mode. b. It is the mean. c. It is the 50th percentile. d. It is equal to (N+1)/2.
Which of the following statements about children's motor development is true?
a. Children develop motor skills in a consistent sequence. b. The age at which a child develops a motor skill may vary from one child to another. c. Both genetic codes and environment influence the development of motor skills. d. All of these.
In Bandura's classic (1965) study of children exposed to a film of an adult hitting an inflated doll, children who saw the model ________
a. punished performed more aggressively in a free play situation than children who saw the model rewarded b. rewarded performed more aggressively in a free play situation than children who saw the model punished c. punished learned to be more aggressive than children who saw the model rewarded d. rewarded learned to be more aggressive than children who saw the model punished
______________ takes place after a stimulus is identified and before a response is executed
a. Motor imagery c. Motor anticipation b. Motor priming d. Intentions