Mary Agrees with This Logic: If All Violins Are Musical

question 75

Multiple Choice

Mary agrees with this logic: If all violins are musical instruments,and if all musical instruments make sounds,then all violins must make sounds. However,we then present this situation involving the same logical reasoning: If all Cheetos are eggplants,and if all eggplants are oysters,then all Cheetos are oysters. Mary vehemently denies that Cheetos can possibly be oysters. Taking Piaget's perspective of cognitive development,we would conclude that Mary is in the ________ stage.

• A)concrete operational
• B)formal operational
• C)preoperational
• D)sensorimotor

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Definitions:

Steth/o

A prefix relating to the chest, often used in terms related to medical examination of the chest, e.g., stethoscope.

Corpor/e

A combining form used in medical terminology relating to the body or the corpus of an organ.

Tachy-

A prefix meaning fast or rapid, used in medical terminology to describe an accelerated condition, e.g., tachycardia.

-emia

A suffix used in medical terms to denote a condition of the blood.