Children Develop Problem-Solving Abilities Relative to Mass, Weight, and Volume

question 168

Multiple Choice

Children develop problem-solving abilities relative to mass, weight, and volume at different ages. This finding suggests

• A) children are preoperational longer than previously thought.
• B) children develop conservations skills earlier than Piaget believed.
• C) conservation does not appear in children's thinking all at once.
• D) seriation does not appear in children's thinking all at once.

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Definitions:

Economic Resources

Assets or inputs used for the production of goods and services, typically categorized into land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

Marginal Product

Marginal product is the additional output generated by using one more unit of a particular input while keeping other inputs constant.

Marginal Revenue Product

The additional revenue generated from employing one more unit of a resource, all other factors being constant.

Resource Productivity

The ratio of output (goods and services) produced per unit of resource input, used to assess the efficiency of resource use.