Ivan's Mother Takes Some Play Dough from a Small Box

Multiple Choice

Ivan's mother takes some play dough from a small box and makes a long cylindrical model of a rocket for him. Ivan believes that the play dough will not fit into the box anymore because the shape of the play dough has now changed. The limitation of Ivan's preoperational thought illustrated in the scenario is referred to as

A) decentration.
B) seriation.
C) irreversibility.
D) ordinality.