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When Mark's grandmother calls on the telephone to wish him a happy birthday,she asks him,"How old are you today?" Instead of saying anything,Mark holds up four fingers.His behavior is best explained as

A) intuitive.
B) egocentric.
C) excessive conservation.
D) a lack of object permanence.

Egocentric

The inability to differentiate between one's own perspective and someone else's perspective, common in early childhood development.

Intuitive

Ability to understand or know something immediately based on instinct rather than conscious reasoning.

Conservation

The cognitive ability to understand that certain properties of objects, such as volume or mass, remain the same even when their outward appearance changes.

  • Point out the restrictions present in preoperational thought, such as egocentrism and animism.
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