Laura and Ted Like to Play "House," a Game They

question 45

Multiple Choice

Laura and Ted like to play "house," a game they invented in which Laura pretends to be the "mother" and Ted the "father." In this game, Laura cooks the food on a pretend stove and Ted takes out the pretend garbage. The ability to play this game relies most directly on which cognitive ability?

• A) egocentrism
• B) conservation
• C) reversibility
• D) symbolic representation

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