Marsha watches her mother bathe the new baby.The next morning she gets her doll and a pail of water and bathes her "baby." Marsha is showing

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Marsha is demonstrating deferred imitation, which means she is imitating a behavior she observed at a different time. She watched her mother bathe the baby, and later imitated this behavior with her doll and water. This shows that Marsha is able to remember and replicate actions she has seen before, which is a key aspect of deferred imitation. Symbolic-function, centration, and conservation are not demonstrated in this scenario.

Marsha Watches Her Mother Bathe the New Baby