Piaget proposes that pre-operational children are unable to conserve. He attributes this inability to which one of the following factors?

Options

A. Inability of hypothetico-deductive reasoning
B. Lack of high-level abstract reasoning
C. Personal fable
D. Irreversibility of thought

Answer

D

Explanation

In the pre-operational stage, children engage in make believe and can understand and express relationships between the past and the future. There are three main characteristics of the pre-operational stage of a child.s cognitive development- egocentrism, centration and irreversibility. Irreversibility refers to the inability of a child to realise that an action be done and undone.