Ten-Year-Old Nadia Enjoys Making Up Games and Playing Them with Her

question 99

Multiple Choice

Ten-year-old Nadia enjoys making up games and playing them with her friends.Playing these child-invented games allows Nadia to __________.

• A) play without any rules and increase her popularity
• B) make sure her friends notice her physical superiority
• C) compete against her friends and establish a dominance hierarchy
• D) try out different styles of cooperating and competing with little personal risk

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Definitions:

Preoperational Stage

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, typically from ages 2 to 7, characterized by symbolic thinking, egocentrism, and difficulty understanding conservation.

Motor Skill

A learned ability to cause a predetermined movement outcome with maximum certainty, often involving the coordination of muscles and mind.

Centration

A cognitive constraint in early childhood where the child focuses on one prominent aspect of a situation, neglecting other possible factors.

Stimulus

Anything in the environment that elicits a response from an organism.