In lecture, you saw examples of scale errors in which children:
a. denied that the images cast on a blank wall by an experimenter's hands held in front of a lamp were larger in area than the experimenter's hands
b. estimated the weight of objects based exclusively on the materials that they consisted of, and ignored obvious differences of volume
c. tried to climb into miniature toy cars that they could not possibly fit inside
d. believed answers to problems they computed on a calculator even when they were off by orders of magnitude
Ans: c. tried to climb into miniature toy cars that they could not possibly fit inside
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