Abigail Is an Infant Who Crawls Over to a Box

question 114

Multiple Choice

Abigail is an infant who crawls over to a box of toys that has 10 items and ignores the box of toys that only has five items. A core knowledge theorist would conclude that Abigail ______.

• A) has early knowledge of numbers
• B) is experiencing violation-of-expectation
• C) is capable of tertiary circular reactions
• D) has reached the stage of mental representation

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