Author Question: On a standardized vocabulary test, children were asked, Which of the following would you expect to ... (Read 76 times)

codyclark · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

On a standardized vocabulary test, children were asked, Which of the following would you expect to take you to the hospital if you were injured? and they were given, ambulance, car, airplane, and truck as choices. Ambulance was the correct answer, but several Eskimo children in a remote village in the Arctic selected airplane as a choice because airplanes were the only form of motorized transportation that came into their village. Of the following, which theory would provide the best explanation for the Eskimo children's choice?

a. Social cognitive theory
b. Sociocultural learning theory
c. Situated cognition
d. Cognitive load theory

Question 2

Of the following, the most important characteristic of the concept cup is:

a. blue
b. handle
c. holds liquid
d. ceramic