Question: which one of the following is a characteristic of preoperational thinking?
Answer: Centration. Centration is the tendency to focus on only one aspect of a situation at one time. ... 
Egocentrism. ... 
Play. ... 
Symbolic Representation. ... 
Pretend (or symbolic) Play. ... 
Animism. ... 
Artificialism. ... 
Irreversibility.