Alan,who Is 18 Months Old,hates Spinach but Says "Yum!" When

question 116

Multiple Choice

Alan,who is 18 months old,hates spinach but says "Yum!" when he sees his mother eating her favorite spinach casserole.This indicates that:

• A)he will also like spinach when he grows up.
• B)he recognizes that someone else may have different desires from his own.
• C)he has started to recognize false beliefs.
• D)he has started to understand that people can have ambivalent feelings.

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Definitions:

Pretend Play

A form of play among children where they imitate roles and activities of people around them or characters from stories, as a way to make sense of the world.

Conservation

In psychology, the ability to understand that certain properties of objects, like volume or mass, remain unchanged even when their forms or appearances change, typically associated with Piaget's stages of cognitive development.

Object Permanence

A cognitive development concept that an infant learns, recognizing that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched.

Accommodation

A cognitive process outlined in Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, referring to how we alter our existing frameworks or ideas to incorporate new information.