Interest in Environmental Problems Has Intensified, Perhaps Because

question 107

Multiple Choice

Interest in environmental problems has intensified, perhaps because

• A)for the first time in history in the 1970s, people began to die from pollution-related diseases.
• B)rising incomes have caused people to be more concerned with the quality of their lives.
• C)the centrally planned economies are polluted.
• D)decentralized economies are less polluted.

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Definitions:

Three-mountain Test

A cognitive development test designed by Jean Piaget to assess a child's ability to understand perspectives different from their own.

Reversibility

According to Piaget, recognition that processes can be undone, leaving things as they were before. Reversibility is a factor in conservation of the properties of substances.

Hypothetical Thinking

The cognitive ability to consider possibilities, imagine outcomes, and think about events or conditions that are not yet real or present.

Flexibility and Reversibility

Qualities that allow an individual to adapt to changes and reverse actions or decisions when necessary.