Question

Cassidy is a teacher who loves to try piagetian questions on her young son. one day in the car she asked him who the fastest runners in his class were. to confirm she asked, "kevin is faster than bill, right?" and later she asked, "nate is faster than kevin, right?" waiting a while, she asked, "is nate or bill faster?" she smiled when her son said, "_____," because he was demonstrating _____.

Answer 1

She smiled when her son said "bill" because he was demonstrating seriation. Seriation is defined in archaeology as a relative dating method in which the artifacts or the assemblages from numerous sites, in the same culture, are placed in chronological order. It is also the arrangement of assemblages or artifacts into chronological order.