Sophia, a 13-Year-Old Girl, Experiments with a Balance Scale in Her

Multiple Choice

Sophia, a 13-year-old girl, experiments with a balance scale in her physics class. She tries to hang different weights at different points on a crossbar. She wants to understand the factors that affect the balancing of the scale. In the context of Piaget's cognitive-stage theory, Sophia is demonstrating ________ in this scenario.

A) postconventional morality
B) haptic perception
C) hypothetical-deductive reasoning
D) dual representation hypothesis