The Cree people of Northern Canada value visual skills
needed to find food on the frozen tundra, while the Puluwat people in the South Pacific prize ocean-going navigation skills necessary to get from island to island. These examples illustrate that
a. each culture teaches its children the kinds of "intelligence" valued in that culture.
b. convergent thinking is not part of every culture.
c. divergent thinking is not a part of every culture.
d. the cultural values that affect intelligence are mainly inherited from one's parents.
ANSWER: a
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