A child is asked to pick out two scenes of the toy village on the table in front of her. One scene must be how she sees the village and the other how the child sitting across from her sees the village. What is being measured?

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This task is measuring egocentrism, or the child's ability to understand and take into account another person's perspective. By asking the child to choose two scenes, one from her perspective and one from the perspective of the other child, it tests whether she can understand that others may see things differently than she does. Conservation refers to the ability to understand that changing the appearance of something does not change its fundamental properties, habituation and conditioning are terms from classical conditioning, and dishabituation refers to an increase in responsiveness after a change in stimuli.

A Child Is Asked to Pick Out Two Scenes of the Toy