You Ask a Student to Describe the Path to His

question 108

Multiple Choice

You ask a student to describe the path to his dorm room. The most likely way in which he will do this is to ________.

• A) recite a rote list of directions he memorized
• B) give you the GPS location of his dorm room
• C) walk through a mental image of the path and describe it to you as he does it
• D) draw you a map and then describe it to you

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