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Four-Year-Old Hugo Is Shown Two Rows of Six Candles Each

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Four-year-old Hugo is shown two rows of six candles each. The candles in one row are spaced farther than the candles in the other row. When Hugo is asked if there are an equal number of candles in both rows, he replies that the row with more distance between the candles has more candles. In the context of Jean Piaget's cognitive theory, this illustrates Hugo's inability to grasp


A) theory of mind.
B) object permanence.
C) conservation.
D) transduction.

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