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Which ability, the opposite of centration, allows conservation to occur?

ADecentration
BEgocentrism
CArtificialism
DIrreversibility
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Decentration
1. Decentration means attending to more than one feature at a time. 2. A child can then note both the height and the width of a glass. 3. This is what allows conservation, while the other terms are limits of earlier thinking. _Source: Wikipedia, Piaget's theory of cognitive development, Testing for concrete operations_
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