Which One of the Following Examples Best Illustrates Piaget's Concept

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Multiple Choice

Which one of the following examples best illustrates Piaget's concept of object permanence?

• A) Two-year-old Jasmine looks for a favorite toy her father has just hidden in a box.
• B) Six-year-old Lucas thinks that his recently deceased grandfather is still alive.
• C) Ten-year-old Margaret glues the pieces of a vase she has just broken, claiming that she'll make it look "good as new."
• D) Fifteen-year-old Kenneth finally understands his geometry teacher's statement that two parallel lines might go on forever without ever touching.

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Definitions:

Time of Death

The estimated time when a person has died, a critical piece of information in forensic investigations to help establish the sequence of events.

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A measure used in forensic entomology to estimate the post-mortem interval by calculating the cumulative amount of thermal energy.

Larva

The immature, wingless, and often wormlike feeding stage of an insect, before it undergoes transformation into its adult form.

Develop

To bring out the capabilities or possibilities of something; to make more intricate or evolve, especially over time.