Recall That Bridgeman (1981) Conducted an Experiment with Ten-Year-Old Children

question 160

Multiple Choice

Recall that Bridgeman (1981) conducted an experiment with ten-year-old children, half of whom had previously had two months' experience in a jigsaw classroom. In this experiment, she showed the youngsters a cartoon in which a little boy waves goodbye to his father at the airport, receives a package from the postman, and bursts into tears upon finding out that it contains a toy plane. Children who had two months' experience in the jigsaw groups were more likely than the control group to say that the __________.

• A) boy cried because the gift reminded him of his father leaving
• B) boy cried because he missed his father
• C) postman was confused about why the boy cried
• D) postman knew the boy was sad because the gift reminded him of his father's leaving

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