According to Piaget, magical thinking is common during the preschool years because young children ________.
A. fail to grasp the principles of conservation
B. egocentrically assign human purposes to physical events
C. cannot mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then reverse direction
D. believe that physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes
Answer: B
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