Five-year-old Linus is playing with his baby sister, Lucy. He ...

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Five-year-old Linus is playing with his baby sister, Lucy. He takes Lucy's teddy bear and hides it behind a pillow while Lucy watches. Lucy quickly finds the bear. Then Linus puts teddy in a bag, puts the bag behind a chair (where he dumps teddy), and then brings out the empty bag. Lucy looks inside the bag, but doesn't look for teddy behind the chair and is surprised when it is not there. According to Piaget, Lucy
 
  a. lacks object permanence.
  b. is playing to an imaginary audience.
  c. is committing the A not B error.
  d. is a formal operational thinker.

Question 2

Which of the following is true regarding the development of role-taking skills?
 
  a. It is not until at least age 20 that people are able to include a mental perspective of some generalized other..
  b. By age four years, most children understand that parents may not think the way they do.
  c. Concrete-operational thinkers are capable of simultaneously considering several different points of view.
  d. The ability to consider a situation from a number of different points of view increases the quality of one's social relationships.

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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

d