In the Study by Beal and Flavell (1984), Children Performed

question 20

Multiple Choice

In the study by Beal and Flavell (1984) , children performed less well in detecting ambiguity when:

• A)The child was distracted when the experimenter carried out a magic trick
• B)The ambiguity was very subtle
• C)The ambiguity was very conspicuous
• D)The experimenter supplied disambiguating information
• E)The set of alternatives was large

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