You Suspect That a Young Child Is in Piaget's Preoperational

question 504

Multiple Choice

You suspect that a young child is in Piaget's preoperational stage. Which of the following would you look for to confirm your suspicion?

• A)A lack of object permanence
• B)Success at a conservation task
• C)Failure with the three-mountain problem
• D)The ability to think abstractly and form hypotheses
• E)Evidence of proximal development

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Definitions:

Summarizing

The act of briefly presenting the main points or essence of a longer text or speech in a concise form.

Paraphrasing

the act of expressing the meaning of something written or spoken using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity.

Critical Value

A cutoff point on a test statistic at or beyond which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Hypothesis Test

A statistical method used to determine whether there is enough evidence to reject a null hypothesis in favor of an alternative hypothesis.