How Did Piaget Explain Why Preschool-Age Children in the Preoperational

question 23

Multiple Choice

How did Piaget explain why preschool-age children in the preoperational stage make errors on tasks requiring conservation?

• A)Preschool-age children's neural-visual network is not fully matured.
• B)Preschool-age children have not lived long enough to accrue enough experience spotting the differences between quantities.
• C)Preschool-age children's tendency toward centration prevents them from focusing on other relevant features of a situation.
• D)Preschool-age children have not developed numerical understanding;therefore,different amounts are meaningless.

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