How did Piaget explain why preschool-age children in the preoperational stage make errors on tasks requiring conservation?
A. Preschool-age children's neural-visual network is not fully matured.
B. Preschool-age children have not lived long enough to accrue enough experience spotting the differences between quantities.
C. Preschool-age children's tendency toward centration prevents them from focusing on other relevant features of a situation.
D. Preschool-age children have not developed numerical understanding; therefore, different amounts are meaningless.
Answer: C
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