A teacher asks a group of young children to consider what would happen if refrigerators ate the food we store inside them. The teacher is encouraging what type of thinking?
A) fluency
B) flexibility
C) originality
D) elaboration

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The teacher is encouraging original thinking by asking the children to consider a hypothetical situation where refrigerators eat the food we store inside them. This requires the children to think outside of the box and come up with unique ideas. Fluency refers to generating a large quantity of ideas, flexibility refers to coming up with different ways of looking at a problem, and elaboration refers to developing and adding details to an idea.

A Teacher Asks a Group of Young Children to Consider