Ashley is taking a class on Piaget and as part of an assignment, has to interview children. She gives 7-year-old Andrew a bag of red and blue candies. They discuss how the candies are made of chocolate. Andrew counts the candies—7 red and 14 blue
Ashley asks, "Are there more blue candies or chocolate candies?" Andrew looks at her and laughs: "Of course there are more chocolate candies—they are all made of chocolate." This demonstrates that Andrew understands the concept of
A) seriation.
B) class inclusion.
C) reversibility.
D) transitivity.
B) class inclusion. Class inclusion is a relation between subclasses of a class. In particular, it is the understanding that all members of a subclass are also included in the same class (e.g., all tulips and roses are also flowers).
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