Consider the Following: Premise 1: If an Animal Barks, It

question 102

Multiple Choice

Consider the following: Premise 1: If an animal barks, it is a dog.
Premise 2: A snail barks.
The concrete operational child would fail to draw the conclusion that "a snail is a dog" because his or her conclusions are based on

• A) tertiary circular reactions.
• B) experience.
• C) deductive reasoning.
• D) egocentrism.

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Personality Testing

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Null-Hypothesis

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