If You Ask a Child to Watch You as You

question 35

Multiple Choice

If you ask a child to watch you as you take one of two identical balls of clay and roll that ball into a clay snake, and the child then thinks there is more clay in the snake because it is longer than the other ball, the child has

• A) used transductive reasoning to frame their answer.
• B) centered on only one aspect of the situation (the length) and ignored other aspects (the height or diameter).
• C) attributed a characteristic of a living organism to the clay snake.
• D) failed to store the image of the identical balls of clay in their memory.