Which of the following research topics on problem solving would have the lowest ecological validity?

a. How people plan their route through a hardware store, so that they can locate the items as quickly as possible.
b. How diners in a restaurant figure out how to divide a bill fairly among themselves.
c. How parents of preschoolers plan a birthday party.
d. How students in a geometry class use information from previous problems to solve the current problem.


Ans: d

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