Question

A magician's stock and trade is getting the audience to focus on one aspect of his demonstration while he is manipulating another. This is most easy with preoperational children, as they are easily fooled with their tendency to:a. be static thinkers.

b. reverse things in their perception.
c. demonstrate centration.
d. equilibrate.

Answer 1

C. Demonstrate centration.

Step-by-step explanation:

Centration is the tendency to focus on one important aspect of a situation and let go of the other. Centration is a behaviour that is often shown in the preoperational stage.

Answer 2

Answer: c. demonstrate centration.

Explanation: When an individual seems to be carried away by an event or activity while neglecting other happenings or occurrences in his or her environment. This can be attributed to inability to maintained shared focus on all the segments of a certain activity. Children in the preoperational stage of development usually between 2 to 7 years of age usually exhibit centration, resulting in their tendency to miss out on important details. As with people who indulge in magical stunts, they tend to attach the focus of the audience to a aspect of their demonstration while tweaking the others, thereby individuals who demonstrate centration will be attached to aspect the magician desires while missing out on the manipulative acts.