When 5-Year-Old Clinton Looks at the Road Map His Parents

question 2

Multiple Choice

When 5-year-old Clinton looks at the road map his parents are using to plan a trip, he laughs and exclaims, "That's silly. Our car can't fit on roads that small!" Which one of the following best explains Clinton's statement?

• A) Clinton is only beginning to develop proportional reasoning.
• B) Clinton doesn't yet fully appreciate the symbolic nature of maps.
• C) Clinton is the victim of infantile amnesia, in that he can't remember other road maps he's previously seen.
• D) Clinton's working memory capacity is insufficient to enable him to look at all parts of the map simultaneously.

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