Parents Seldom Spend a Lot of Time Explaining to Their

question 6

Multiple Choice

Parents seldom spend a lot of time explaining to their children how to ride a bicycle. Instead, they often get a bike with training wheels and let the children learn for themselves how to ride a bike. This is because our understanding about how to ride a bicycle is based on __________.

• A) automatic thinking, which is difficult to describe to someone else
• B) controlled thinking that can only be learned by experience
• C) intuition, which is difficult to express in language that a child can understand
• D) personal experience that is not likely to be believed by the child

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