Mark can describe to his teacher how he walks from his house to the playground, where a bus picks him up, but he cannot describe how he would walk from the playground back to his house, because he has never done this. Mark's thinking is best considered to be an example of:
A) conservation of space
B) irreversibility
C) centration
D) reification

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Irreversibility is a characteristic of preoperational thought in which children have an inability to think backwards, or to see how an event can be reversed.

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