Laura and Ted like to play "house," a game they invented in which Laura pretends to be the "mother" and Ted the "father." In this game, Laura cooks the food on a pretend stove and Ted takes out the pretend garbage
The ability to play this game relies most directly on which cognitive ability?
a. egocentrism
b. conservation
c. reversibility
d. symbolic representation
d
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