Madelaine is working to teach her 4-year-old daughter Eliza how to count. She places ten pennies in one row with very little space between the pennies, and eight pennies in another row with more space between the pennies. Then Madelaine asks Eliza which row has more pennies. Eliza chooses the second row, even though she knows that ten is more than eight. What is Eliza's response an example of?
A. symbolic functioning
B. concrete operations
C. formal operational functioning
D. centration
Answer: D
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a. ?short-term memory b. ?semantic memory c. ?sensory memory d. ?long-term memory
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