Question

Madeline is working to teach her 4 year old daughter, Eliza, how to count. She places 10 buttons in one row with very little space between the buttons, and 8 buttons in another row with more space between the buttons; therefore, the second row is longer than the first. Then Madeline asks her daughter which row has more buttons. Inevitably, Eliza chooses the second row, even though she knows that 10 is more than 8. What is this an example of?

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Answer 2

This is an example of Centration.

Step-by-step explanation:

Centration is a term used in developmental psychology, specifically when using Piaget's theory of cognitive development. According to this theory children go through different stages of cognitive development and these are linked to the child's age. From ages 4 to 7, children are in the preoperational stage, and centration is a process that presents itself in this stage. It is the children's tendency to focus only on one salient aspect of a problem, situation or object. One of the most common aspects young children who are in this stage of cognitive development focus on is on the space an object occupies, for example, size or length.

In this case Eliza doesn't focus on the number of buttons in each row. Even though she knows that 10 is more than 8, when put in two different rows, she only focuses on the length of both rows, and because the one with 8 buttons is longer, she will inevitably choose that one.