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Conservation (Piaget)
Conservation (Piaget)
In Piaget's theory, understanding that an amount remains the same even when its shape or arrangement changes.
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Conservation (Piaget)
In Piaget's theory, understanding that an amount remains the same even when its shape or arrangement changes.
A child who understands conservation knows that pouring water into a taller glass does not create more water. This ability develops across different kinds of quantity, including number and volume, during the concrete operational period.
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A child sees the same amount of juice in a wide cup and a narrow cup and says that neither cup has more.
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