alleryA child insists a tall narrow glass holds more juice than a short wide one with the same amount. This shows:
ASeriation
BReversibility
CDecentration
DCentration
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Centration
1. The child attends only to the height of the juice.
2. Focusing on a single feature of a situation and ignoring others is **centration**.
3. Centration is a typical limit of preoperational thought.
**Why not the others:** Decentration is the opposite ability (attending to several features at once), which this child lacks.
_Source: NCERT Class 11 Psychology, Ch 3 "Human Development", section "Cognitive Development", p. 50 (ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/kepy103.pdf)_
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