A Foreign Exchange Student Is Asking Questions of One of His

question 407

Multiple Choice

A foreign exchange student is asking questions of one of his classmates. As he moves closer to her, she keeps moving back. This situation

• A)is due to the two students having different cultural norms for their personal space.
• B)may lead to the foreign exchange student feeling rejected.
• C)may be misunderstood by the classmate as the exchange student trying to become too familiar.
• D)can be interpreted in all of these ways.

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Definitions:

Inhelder

Swiss developmental psychologist best known for her work on the cognitive development of children, often in collaboration with Jean Piaget.

Reason

The mental capacity to form judgments or conclusions based on logic and knowledge.

Combination-of-liquids task

A cognitive task used to assess a child's understanding of conservation; involves mixing liquids to see if a child understands that volume remains constant despite changes in appearance.