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How did Piaget explain why preschool-age children in the preoperational stage make errors on tasks requiring conservation?

A) Preschool-age children's neural-visual network is not fully matured.
B) Preschool-age children have not lived long enough to accrue enough experience spotting the differences between quantities.
C) Preschool-age children's tendency toward centration prevents them from focusing on other relevant features of a situation.
D) Preschool-age children have not developed numerical understanding;therefore,different amounts are meaningless.

Centration

A cognitive limitation in early childhood, where a child focuses on one aspect of a situation while ignoring others.

Neural-Visual Network

A system in the brain that processes visual information, integrating it with neural signals for perception and understanding.

Numerical Understanding

The ability to comprehend, interpret, and work with numbers.

  • Define and identify examples of conservation and centration in cognitive development.
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