Question

Madelaine is working to teach her 4-year-old daughter Eliza how to count. She places ten pennies in one row with very little space between the pennies, and eight pennies in another row with more space between the pennies. Then Madelaine asks Eliza which row has more pennies. Eliza chooses the second row, even though she knows that ten is more than eight. What is Eliza's response an example of?
A centration
B. preoperational functioning
C. concrete operations
D. symbolic functioning

Answer 1

Answer: (A) Centration

Explanation:

 The Centration is the term which is used to refers to the logical ability of the children in which they majorly focuses on the one major situation and then resolve the given problem more effectively by neglecting others.

 The Centration is basically demonstrating about the behavior of the children y using pre-operational stage in the development process in which the children focusing on specific situation so that it helps in solving the various types of tasks logically.  

 According to the given question, the Eliza's response is best illustrating the concept of Centration which helps in describe about the stage of cognitive development process of the children.

 Therefore, Option (A) is correct answer.