Maynard and Greenfield Compared Boys and Girls from a Zinacantec

question 146

Multiple Choice

Maynard and Greenfield compared boys and girls from a Zinacantec community and their peers from Los Angeles on their performance on two types of concrete operational tasks (a traditional Piagetian task and a task that was based on traditional weaving practices) . The researchers found that:

• A) children from Los Angeles did better on the Piagetian task, but Zinacantec children did better on the weaving task.
• B) Zinacantec children did better on the Piagetian task, but children from Los Angeles did better on the weaving task.
• C) children from both groups performed equally well on both tasks.
• D) children from Los Angeles did better than the Zinacantec children on both tasks.

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