In Her Experiment, Rheta DeVries Was Able to Demonstrate That

question 184

Multiple Choice

In her experiment, Rheta DeVries was able to demonstrate that children under the age of three are not able to distinguish between appearance and reality when she presented them with a masked cat. The inability of young children to make this distinction can be attributed to

• A)poor perceptual ability.
• B)the lack of proficiency at dual encoding.
• C)their egocentrism.
• D)their fear of pets.

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Definitions:

Securely Attached

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