The Cree People of Northern Canada Value Visual Skills Needed

question 80

Multiple Choice

The Cree people of Northern Canada value visual skills needed to find food on the frozen tundra,while the Puluwat people in the South Pacific prize ocean-going navigation skills necessary to get from island to island.These examples illustrate that

• A) divergent thinking is not a part of every culture.
• B) each culture teaches its children the kinds of "intelligence" valued in that culture.
• C) convergent thinking is not part of every culture.
• D) the cultural values that affect intelligence are mainly inherited from one's parents.

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Focus Group Method

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