Nikki Is in the Second Grade and Is Given the Following

question 484

Multiple Choice

Nikki is in the second grade and is given the following problem to solve: John has 15 apples, Amy has 10 apples, and Chris has 5 apples.How many apples do John and Chris have altogether? Nikki adds the apples for all three people, using the irrelevant information about Amy's number of apples.Thus, according to Davidson, Nikki is displaying a lack of

• A) selective attention.
• B) selective comparison.
• C) selective encoding.
• D) selective combination.

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