Parents seldom spend a lot of time explaining to their children how to ride a bicycle. Instead, they often get a bike with training wheels and let the children learn for themselves how to ride a bike

This is because our understanding about how to ride a bicycle is based on

a. automatic thinking, which is difficult to describe to someone else.
b. controlled thinking that can only be learned by experience.
c. intuition, which is difficult to express in language that a child can understand.
d. personal experience that is not likely to be believed by the child.

Answer: A

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