When Presented with Piaget's Conservation Tasks,9-Year-Old Ramon Demonstrates Reversibility

question 40

Multiple Choice

When presented with Piaget's conservation tasks,9-year-old Ramon demonstrates reversibility.This means that Ramon can __________.

• A) focus on several aspects of a problem and then center on just one
• B) think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction
• C) order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight
• D) focus on relations between a general and two specific categories at the same time

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