The Study Involving American and Chinese College Students Who Were

question 171

Multiple Choice

The study involving American and Chinese college students who were asked to solve two problems, one that required a solution similar to the strategy in the Hansel and Gretel story and one that required a solution similar to a strategy in a Chinese fairy tale, demonstrated the impact of _____ on analogical problem solving.

• A) culturally specific content
• B) informal theories
• C) differences in parents' educational practices
• D) social scaffolding

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Definitions:

Interaction Term

An interaction term in statistics is a variable created from the product of two or more variables to capture the effect of their interaction on a dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment that is affected by changes in the independent variable.

Influenced

Refers to being affected or altered by an external factor or variable.

Sample Regression Line

This is the line obtained from the regression analysis of sample data, used to predict the dependent variable values from the independent variable.