If a Child Can Embrace the Merely Possible as Well

question 119

Multiple Choice

If a child can embrace the merely possible as well as the real, and if she can also entertain hypothetical possibilities, or what might be along with what is, then she is in Piaget's stage of __________.

• A) preoperational thought
• B) concrete operations
• C) formal operations
• D) Egocentrism

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Definitions:

Energy

The capacity to do work or produce change, existing in various forms such as kinetic, potential, thermal, and chemical energy.

Parts Per Trillion

A unit of measurement used to denote extremely small concentrations of a substance in another, equivalent to one part in 10^12 parts.

Nuclear Change

Alterations at the atomic nucleus level, including nuclear reactions such as fission, fusion, and radioactive decay, releasing significant amounts of energy.

Mass

Mass is a fundamental property of physical objects that quantifies the amount of matter they contain. It is a determinant of an object's resistance to acceleration when a force is applied.