Five-Year-Old Steven Climbs Up the Small Tree in His Parents

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Multiple Choice

Five-year-old Steven climbs up the small tree in his parents' backyard. When he's ready to come down, he begins to cry for his mother to help. Steven's inability to retrace his steps to go back down the tree illustrates that Steven's thinking lacks

• A)animism.
• B)reversibility.
• C)object permanence.
• D)conservation.

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Definitions:

Environmental Conditions

The various physical and biological factors that influence an organism's life and development.

Phenotypic Response

The observable physical or biochemical changes in an organism in reaction to environmental factors.

Genotype

The genetic makeup of an organism, representing its set of genes.

Evolution by Natural Selection

A process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring, driving the evolution of species.