You just came back from a class in which the topic was egocentrism in the preoperational stage. You have a 4-year-old and thought that you would see whether what you learned was accurate. You stand a book on the table. You can see the back of the book and he can see the front. You are sitting directly across from your child and ask him to look at the book. After he does this, you ask him to describe "the part of the book I am looking at." What does he tell you?
A. the number of pages in the book
B. the back of the book
C. the front of the book
D. what the story is about
Answer: C
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