Maynard and Greenfield Compared Boys and Girls from a Zinacantec

Multiple Choice

Maynard and Greenfield compared boys and girls from a Zinacantec community and their peers from Los Angeles on their performance on two types of concrete operational tasks (a traditional Piagetian task and a task that was based on traditional weaving practices) . The researchers found that:

A) children from Los Angeles did better on the Piagetian task, but Zinacantec children did better on the weaving task.
B) Zinacantec children did better on the Piagetian task, but children from Los Angeles did better on the weaving task.
C) children from both groups performed equally well on both tasks.
D) children from Los Angeles did better than the Zinacantec children on both tasks.