Veruca's mother is buying breakfast cereal. Even though there is more cereal in the wide plastic containers than in the tall, thin boxes, Veruca cries, "I want the box Mommy because I want more!" According to Piaget, Veruca has not yet mastered __________, which means she is probably in the __________ stage of cognitive development.
A. conservation; concrete operational
B. conservation; preoperational
C. object permanence; concrete operational
D. object permanence; preoperational
Answer: B
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a. top-down processing. b. bottom-up processing. c. the perceptual set. d. extrasensory perception.
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a. a high concordance rate b. a low concordance rate c. epigenesis d. heritability
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(a) turned toward the sound less and turned away more than the change group (b) turned toward the sound more and turned away less than the change group (c) turned toward and away from the sound equally as much (d) did not make any discernible head turns either toward or away from the sound
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