Discussion
One of the main characteristics of pre-operational thought according to Jean Piaget is __________ which refers to the tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation and neglect others.
Answer: B
The characteristic is centration.
Centration is the tendency of a pre-operational child (about 2 to 7 years) to focus on one striking feature of a situation and ignore others. In Piaget's conservation task, a child sees water poured into a taller, thinner glass and says there is now more, attending only to the height.
Decentration, attending to several features at once, is the opposite and develops in the concrete operational stage. Transduction is reasoning from one particular case to another, a different pre-operational feature, and causation is not a Piagetian term for this tendency.
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