A 2 1/2-Year Old Child Watches an Experimenter Hide a Toy

question 56

Multiple Choice

A 2 1/2-year old child watches an experimenter hide a toy in a large room, and later tries to find a smaller version of the toy in a small, scale-model version of the room. Under what circumstances, if any, is the child likely to find the toy quickly?

• A) Only if the child has been told to treat the small room as a model or symbol of the larger room.
• B) Only if the child has been given training at map-reading.
• C) Only if the child has been told that the experimenter shrunk the room.
• D) Under no conditions.

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