Three-Year-Old Children Heard a Story About a Genie Who Needed

Multiple Choice

Three-year-old children heard a story about a genie who needed to transport some jewels over a wall and into a bottle. The genie solved her problem by rolling up a piece of poster board so that it formed a tube, placing one end of the tube in the mouth of the bottle, and rolling the jewels through the tube and into the bottle. After hearing this story, three-year-old children

A) successfully generalized what they learned in this story to a similar story.
B) were able to suggest a similar solution to the Easter Bunny, who needed to transport his eggs across a river and into a basket on the other side.
C) showed that they could solve analogies.
D) were not able to suggest a similar solution to the Easter Bunny, who needed to transport his eggs across a river and into a basket on the other side. However, five-year-olds were able to suggest a similar solution to the Easter Bunny.