Recall That Bridgeman (1981) Conducted an Experiment with Ten-Year-Old Children

Multiple Choice

Recall that Bridgeman (1981) conducted an experiment with ten-year-old children, half of whom had previously had two months' experience in a jigsaw classroom. In this experiment, she showed the youngsters a cartoon in which a little boy waves goodbye to his father at the airport, receives a package from the postman, and bursts into tears upon finding out that it contains a toy plane. Children who had two months' experience in the jigsaw groups were more likely than the control group to say that the __________.

A) boy cried because the gift reminded him of his father leaving
B) boy cried because he missed his father
C) postman was confused about why the boy cried
D) postman knew the boy was sad because the gift reminded him of his father's leaving