When Asked, "What If You Had Three Eyes?" the Typical

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Multiple Choice

When asked, "What if you had three eyes?" the typical response of a concrete-operational child is to

• A)place the extra eye creatively at an unusual body site.
• B)wonder about all the advantages a third eye would yield.
• C)correct the "error," saying that no one has three eyes.
• D)read whether three-eyed fossil species were real.

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