Baby Luka is playing with a bouncing ball in his playpen, and accidentally the ball bounces out of the playpen and rolls under a nearby chair.Luka tries to get his mother to retrieve his ball by pointing in the direction of where the ball went under the chair.Piaget would say this is an example of

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Piaget would categorize Luka's action of pointing to communicate the location of the ball as an example of mental representation. This is because Luka is using an abstract form of communication (pointing) to represent something that is not currently visible or directly accessible, indicating he has formed a mental image of the ball and its location.

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