Mary Jane Is Given Her Choice of Two Hershey Bars

question 81

Multiple Choice

Mary Jane is given her choice of two Hershey bars, one of which has been broken into four pieces.She chooses the broken candy bar, believing that it has more candy.Mary Jane is showing a lack of _______, indicating that she has not yet completed the transition to the _________ stage of development.

• A)combinatorial thought; concrete operations
• B)combinatorial thought; formal operations
• C)conservation; concrete operations
• D)conservation; formal operations

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Definitions:

Financial Challenges

Difficult circumstances or obstacles related to managing money, often involving insufficient income or rising debts.

Double-blind Studies

Experimental studies in which neither the participants nor the researchers know who is receiving a particular treatment, to prevent bias in the results.

Placebo Effect

A phenomenon where patients experience real improvements in their condition after receiving an inert treatment, due to the belief that they are receiving an active medical intervention.

Double-blind Procedure

An experimental procedure in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, to prevent bias in research results.