Four-year-olds generally can't understand that subtraction undoes addition, as in 2 + 3 = 5 and 5 - 2 = 3. This is because their cognitive structures are
A) artificial.
B) assimilated.
C) not reversible.
D) internalized.
C) not reversible. If we have 4 and take 2 away, we need to understand that we can return to 4 by adding 2 back.
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a. resistance b. recovery c. exhaustion d. alarm reaction
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a. brainstorming. b. problem solving. c. open-ended insight. d. creative flexibility.
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A. Fechner's constant B. Weber's law C. intrastimulus difference D. Helmholtz's hierarchy