If you ask a child to watch you as you take one of two identical balls of clay and roll that ball into a clay snake, and the child then thinks there is more clay in the snake because it is longer than the other ball, the child has
A. used transductive reasoning to frame their answer.
B. centered on only one aspect of the situation (the length) and ignored other aspects (the height or diameter).
C. attributed a characteristic of a living organism to the clay snake.
D. failed to store the image of the identical balls of clay in their memory.
Answer: B
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