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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1, Question 26

Topic: Learning and cognition

Q26

Radha reasons, “Clothes dry faster in the sun than in the shade, so the sun is helping them to dry”. She is showing an understanding of—

  1. (1) cause and effect.Correct answer
  2. (2) reversible thinking.
  3. (3) decentration.
  4. (4) animism.

Solution.

CBSE answer: (1)

Answer: (1) cause and effect

  1. Radha compares two conditions, sun and shade, sees a difference in drying speed, and names the sun as the reason.
  2. Linking an outcome to the factor that produces it is cause-and-effect reasoning.
  3. Reversible thinking is mentally undoing an action; decentration is attending to several features at once; animism is giving life to non-living things.

Trap: (4) would apply only if she said the sun 'wants' to help, as if alive.