Other Things Being Equal,which One of the Following Four Boys

question 94

Multiple Choice

Other things being equal,which one of the following four boys is likely to learn and remember the most by reading a book about spiders?

• A)Eight-year-old Albert,for whom the book is slightly above his zone of proximal development
• B)Eight-year-old Bernard,who knows a lot more about spiders than the other three boys do
• C)Ten-year-old Colt,who performs well on a task involving conservation of displaced volume
• D)Ten-year-old Darren,who shows some understanding of simple proportions

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