Your 3-Year-Old Niece Is Playing Hide-And-Seek with You

Multiple Choice

Your 3-year-old niece is playing hide-and-seek with you. When it is her turn to hide, she goes into the corner, turns her back on you and closes her eyes, believing that now you cannot see her. She is demonstrating __________, typical of children in the __________ stage.

A) object permanence; sensorimotor
B) conservation; preoperational
C) egocentrism; preoperational
D) hypothetical thinking; formal operational
E) abstract thinking; concrete operational