Preoperational Children Fail to Show Conservation Skills Because of a Characteristic

question 151

Multiple Choice

Preoperational children fail to show conservation skills because of a characteristic known as

• A) egocentrism.
• B) precausal thinking.
• C) transductive reasoning.
• D) irreversibility.

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