Piaget’s conservation-of-liquid task demonstrates that preoperational children’s thinking is characterized by ________, in that they focus on one aspect of a situation, neglecting other important features
A) classinclusion
B) centration
C) animistic thinking
D) reversibility
Answer: B
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