Juan and His Little Sister, Anne, Are Each Given a Large

question 112

Multiple Choice

Juan and his little sister, Anne, are each given a large cookie. Their mother breaks Anne's cookie into four pieces to enable her to eat it easily. Juan immediately begins to cry and says that it is not fair that his sister got more cookies than him. Juan is showing a lack of

• A) constancy.
• B) conservation.
• C) intuition.
• D) symbolic function.

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Definitions:

Catharsis

The process of releasing and thereby providing relief from strong or repressed emotions, often through art, dialogue, or therapy.

Reducing Anger

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