A child who focuses exclusively on a clown's red nose but ignores other features demonstrates which Piagetian concept?

• A. Centration
• B. Conservation
• C. Reversibility
• D. Egocentrism

Answer: (A)

Centration. This happens when a child focuses on one salient feature and ignores others. In the example, the child fixates on the clown’s red nose and neglects the rest of the facial features, showing a tendency to concentrate on what stands out rather than analyzing the whole picture. This is typical of the preoperational stage, where perceptual cues dominate reasoning. The other concepts don’t fit as well: conservation is about understanding that quantity stays the same despite changes in appearance, which isn’t about attention to features; reversibility is about mentally undoing actions; egocentrism is about taking others’ viewpoints, not about selectively focusing on a single aspect.