More American College Students Than Chinese Students Were Able to Solve

Multiple Choice

More American college students than Chinese students were able to solve the cave problem by recalling the "Hansel and Gretel story," while more Chinese students than American students solved the statue's weight problem by recalling the "weighing of the elephant" fable. These differing percentages illustrate all of the following EXCEPT that

A) every culture prepares its members to solve some types of problems more easily than others.
B) both groups of students exhibited functional fixedness regarding the stories they had heard in childhood.
C) the culture we grow up in affects our ability to use selective comparison to solve problems.
D) being exposed to a similar problem in the past helps the students' problem solving.