Three-year-old Ceres is playing with her toy farm.She has 15 cows,3 pigs,and 2 horses.When her older brother asks whether there are more cows or more animals,she happily yells out,"more cows!" Ceres has not yet mastered the concept of
A)classification.
B)conservation.
C)representation.
D)reversibility.

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Ceres has not yet learned the concept of classification, which involves sorting objects into categories based on their attributes such as size, color, or shape. She only recognizes the cows as a separate group, without realizing that they are also animals like the pigs and horses. The other options are not relevant to Ceres' current stage of cognitive development: conservation refers to the understanding that the quantity of an object stays the same even if its shape or arrangement changes; representation involves using symbols or mental images to represent objects or events that are not physically present; reversibility is the ability to mentally undo an action and restore an object to its original state.

Three-Year-Old Ceres Is Playing with Her Toy Farm