According to Piaget's theory, children develop which of the following abilities at around the time the sensorimotor period ends and the preoperational period begins?
a. picturing the world mentally without taking action
b. transferring information in short term memory to long term memory
c. generating new strategies to solve problems
d. understanding logical reversible operations
Ans: a. picturing the world mentally without taking action
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