Which of the following examples typifies strain, according to new interpretations of strain theory?

You learned about research in which children were shown where a little snoopy was hidden in a scale model room and asked to find big snoopy in a big room. According to lecture and your text, 2 1/2 year old children had difficulty with this task primarily because of difficulties with

a. having to remember the location of where the object was hidden b. having to think about the scale model room as a symbol and as an object at the same time c. their willingness to accept a hypothetical premise (i.e. that the room shrank) d. their capacity to understand the distinction between appearance and reality

__________ is(are) defined as "mental representations of meanings of the terms in reasoning problems."

a. Formal logic b. Venn diagrams c. Mental models d. Semantic networks