An educational psychologist has decided to do research on reading behavior. If he were to approach this topic from the broadest level of analysis, he would be most likely to study

a. whether readers move their lips while reading.
b. whether attitudes toward reading vary around the world.
c. the eye movements readers make while reading a page of text.
d. left and right brain hemisphere differences in the processing of foreign languages.


Answer: b. whether attitudes toward reading vary around the world.

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