A Child Who Efficiently Sucks a Breast or a Bottle

question 56

Multiple Choice

A child who efficiently sucks a breast or a bottle is presented with a drinking straw,which requires a different sucking strategy.What is likely to happen?

• A) The child will assimilate a new strategy and immediately be successful at sucking in a new fashion.
• B) The child will be frustrated and unable to learn the new strategy. Children who learn to drink from bottles are unsuccessful at learning to drink from straws.
• C) The child will accommodate the straw by changing the existing scheme for sucking and adding a new strategy to deal with the straw.
• D) The child will abandon previous schemes for sucking and create a new scheme for sucking from a straw.

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