alleryA five-year-old does not see that pouring the water back would restore the first amount. This limit is called what?
AIrreversibility
BEgocentrism
CArtificialism
DMagical thinking
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Irreversibility
1. The child cannot mentally run the pouring in reverse.
2. Piaget called this inability to reverse a sequence of events irreversibility.
3. Identity, seriation and classification are skills of the concrete operational stage.
_Source: Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Intuitive thought substage_
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