DeLoache and Her Colleagues (1997)hid a Toy in a Full-Size

question 54

Multiple Choice

DeLoache and her colleagues (1997) hid a toy in a full-size room and then asked 2 ½-year-olds to find the hidden toy in either a scale model of the room or in a scale model of the room that they had pretended to shrink.They found that 2 ½-year-olds

• A)could not find the toy in either the shrinking room condition or the regular scale model condition.
• B)could find the toy in the shrinking room condition,but not in the regular scale model condition.
• C)could find the toy in the regular scale model condition,but not in the shrinking room condition.
• D)could find the toy in both the regular model and shrinking room conditions.

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