A child focuses on only one feature of a situation and ignores all others. Piaget called this what?
ADecentration
BReversibility
CIdentity
DCentration
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Centration
1. Focusing all attention on a single dimension is centration.
2. A child who judges only by the height of a glass is centring on height.
3. Decentration is the later skill of attending to several features at once.
_Source: Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Intuitive thought substage_
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