Three-year-olds were shown a model of a room with a miniature stuffed dog placed behind a miniature couch.By using the model to locate an actual stuffed dog behind a couch in a real room,the children demonstrated their capacity for
A) egocentrism.
B) symbolic thinking.
C) conservation.
D) concrete operational reasoning.

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The ability to use a model to locate an object in the real world demonstrates symbolic thinking, which is the understanding that one thing (in this case, the miniature model) can stand for something else (the real world object). Egocentrism, conservation, and concrete operational reasoning are not relevant to this task.

Three-Year-Olds Were Shown a Model of a Room with a Miniature