Children in _____ Do NOT Acquire Greater Mathematical Proficiency Than

question 14

Multiple Choice

Children in _____ do NOT acquire greater mathematical proficiency than do children in high-achieving European countries.

• A) China
• B) Japan
• C) the United States
• D) South Korea

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Definitions:

Ames Room

A distorted room that creates an optical illusion of objects growing or shrinking as they move across the room.

Bottom-up Processing

A cognitive approach in which perception starts with stimuli input from the environment and works upwards to form a higher-level analysis.

Perceptual Constancy

The ability of the perceptual system to recognize objects as having constant properties (size, shape, color) even when sensory input varies.

Retinal Images

The projections of visual stimuli on the retina, the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye, which are then processed by the brain to create visual perception.