Betty Is About to Complete a Laboratory Task That Involves

Multiple Choice

Betty is about to complete a laboratory task that involves watching specific numbers of items being placed into a bucket with a false bottom. Some of the items go into the false bottom, and some stay in the main part of the bucket for Betty to find. If Betty is a mongoose lemur, and she sees eight items go into the bucket but finds only six items when she reaches in, what will Betty do next?

A) She will use gestures to ask for help in finding the seventh and eighth item.
B) She will do nothing. She cannot tell the difference between six items and eight items.
C) She will keep searching, regardless of the number of items she saw.
D) She will keep searching until she finds the seventh and eighth item.