When you arrange two rows of five pennies each and place them a half-inch apart in the first row while separating the other row of five pennies by three inches, the preoperational child will say that the second row has more pennies. However, the concrete operational child has the capacity to __________ numbers and will not make this same error

a. add
b. subtract
c. symbolize
d. conserve

D

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a) savant syndrome b) Korsakoff's syndrome c) severe mental retardation d) moderate mental retardation

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When large values of one attribute are associated with large values of another

attribute and small values are associated with small values, the correlation between the two attributes is (a) zero (b) positive (c) negative (d) it can be any of the above (e) not enough information is given to answer the question

Psychology