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Which of the following was one of the findings in testing the principle of conservation?

A) To Piaget's surprise, four-year-old children recognized that a ball of clay rolled into a sausage shape still had the same amount of clay. B) A five-year-old child was able to recognize that when a subordinate class of objects is placed together with a larger class of the same type of object, the whole was larger than either group. C) Six- and seven-year-olds recognized that a ball of clay rolled into a sausage shape still had the same amount of clay. D) Piaget found that his research worked best if he used the same types of objects and asked the same questions of all of the children that he studied.

Sometimes physicians can settle too quickly on a diagnosis, and then try to fit later

information with this early hypothesis; this tendency is decreased when doctors a. ask closed-ended questions b. listen closely to patients c. ask all patients the same set of questions d. do not ask any questions e. work with groups of patients, rather than with one patient at a time