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Category - Human Growth and Development

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A child’s ability to include past and future events in their sphere of activity is referred to as ______.
  1. Time revelation
  2. Symbolic representation
  3. Symbolic design
  4. Time conservation
Explanation
Answer: B - Jean Piaget was one of the first developmental psychologists to examine how children think and reason. From ages 2-7, the preoperational stage of development, children can use mental representation to think and are now capable of symbolic representation - using a symbol to represent an object. Because of this, children learn language, which is a system of symbols.
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