A teacher plans to assign her students the task of imagining and describing what the world would be like if all water disappeared completely for 24 hours
Piaget would probably predict that only children in the _______ stage of development would be capable of even entertaining this scenario.
a. formal operational
b. preoperational
c. sensorimotor
d. concrete operational
Answer: A
Rationale: Scientific thinking, such as gathering evidence and systematically testing possibilities is characteristic of this stage.
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a) consensus. b) impressions. c) an attitude. d) a stereotype.
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A. Ia sensory fibers. B. alpha motor neurons. C. IIa sensory fibers. D. Ib sensory fibers.
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a. learning b. humanistic c. psychobiological d. psychoanalytic