Most Americans live in metropolitan suburbs

During the preoperational period, egocentric children

a. insist on being the center of attention. b. believe that others see the world the way they do. c. question authority. d. believe their culture is superior. e. generally engage in conventional moral reasoning.

Timothy told a four-year-old child that Brian is taller than Griffin, and that Griffin is taller than Simona. Timothy then asked, "Who is the tallest of those three people?" The child is likely to not really know because he or she

A) is clearly engaging in egocentric thinking. B) has not achieved object permanence. C) does not understand transitive inference. D) cannot reverse operations.