Researchers have found that African adolescents display better recall for orally transmitted stories than do American adolescents. This is an example of
a. the impact of economics on schooling practices.
b. differences in brain function across cultures.
c. biological predispositions for the use of certain strategies.
d. cross-cultural differences in the tools of intellectual adaptation for remembering.
Question 2
Despite their lack of instruction in memorization strategies, Australian aboriginal children do better than educated Caucasian children while learning
a. items on shopping lists.
b. names and dates of historical events.
c. locations of objects in a local setting.
d. events that happened during infancy in one's own life.
African bush (savanna) elephant in Etosha National Park, Namibia.
African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus)
The African Renaissance Monument
Researchers have found that science instruction can be quite effective in grades 4 to 7.
Ascaris. (Sinclair Stammers/Science Photo Library/Photo Researchers, Inc.)
The developing organism senses maternally transmitted environmental cues