Preoperational Children Engaged in Problem Solving Tend to Focus on More

question 16

True/False

Preoperational children engaged in problem solving tend to focus on more than one element of the problem at a time, which is a major reason they have developed conservation.

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Definitions:

Skepticism

An attitude of questioning, doubt, or disbelief in certain claims or statements without sufficient evidence.

Functionalism

A psychological school of thought focusing on how mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish.

Structuralism

An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind.

Edward Titchener

A British psychologist who founded structuralism, an early school of psychology that aimed to analyze the adult mind in terms of the simplest definable components and then to find the way in which these components fit together in complex forms.