If you ask a child to watch you as you take one of two identical balls of clay and roll that ball into a clay snake, and the child then thinks there is more clay in the snake because it is longer than the other ball, the child has ______.
a. used transductive reasoning to frame their answer
b. centered on only one aspect of the situation (the length) and ignored other aspects (the height or diameter)
c. attributed a characteristic of a living organism to the clay snake
d. failed to store the image of the identical balls of clay in their memory
Ans: B
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