Ms. Little prepared to have her 4-year-old children experiment with ramps and balls. After the children had an opportunity to roll ping-pong balls down the ramp, she gave them golf balls. Before the children could send the golf balls down the ramp they had to make a prediction about the golf ball—that it would roll the same distance, a shorter distance, or a longer distance than the ping-pong ball. This is an example of what type of thinking?
a. convergent
b. recall
c. evaluation
d. divergent