Betty Is About to Complete a Laboratory Task That Involves

question 105

Multiple Choice

Betty is about to complete a laboratory task that involves watching specific numbers of items being placed into a bucket with a false bottom. Some of the items go into the false bottom, and some stay in the main part of the bucket for Betty to find. If Betty is a mongoose lemur, and she sees eight items go into the bucket but finds only six items when she reaches in, what will Betty do next?

• A) She will use gestures to ask for help in finding the seventh and eighth item.
• B) She will do nothing. She cannot tell the difference between six items and eight items.
• C) She will keep searching, regardless of the number of items she saw.
• D) She will keep searching until she finds the seventh and eighth item.