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magmichele12 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Four-year-old Jasmine is shown two identical tall glasses of water and agrees that they contain the same amount of liquid. When the liquid is poured into a short, wide container, she says that there is more water in the shorter container because it is all spread out. Jasmine is demonstrating a lack of understanding of __________.

A) conservation
B) centration
C) dual representation
D) reversibility

Question 2

According to Piaget, magical thinking is common during the preschool years because young children __________.

A) fail to distinguish others symbolic viewpoints from their own
B) egocentrically assign human purposes to physical events
C) cannot mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then reverse direction
D) believe that physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes