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Researchers have demonstrated that poor children perceive coins as :

  • A.Smaller than they actually are
  • B.Larger than they actually are
  • C.About the same size as they actually are
  • D.Sometimes larger and sometimes smaller than they actually are

Answer: B

Poor children perceived coins as larger than they actually are.

In Bruner and Goodman's classic 1947 study, ten-year-old children adjusted a circle of light to match the size of coins. All the children overestimated the coins, more for higher values, and children from poor families overestimated them more than children from well-off families. The study was taken as evidence that needs and values influence perception.

The poor children did not see coins as smaller, the same size or inconsistently sized; the systematic finding was overestimation.

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