Four-year-old Jasmine is shown two identical tall glasses of water and agrees that they contain the same amount of liquid. When the liquid is poured into a short, wide container, she says that there is more water in the shorter container because it is all spread out. Jasmine is demonstrating a lack of understanding of __________.
A) conservation
B) centration
C) dual representation
D) reversibility
Question 2
According to Piaget, magical thinking is common during the preschool years because young children __________.
A) fail to distinguish others symbolic viewpoints from their own
B) egocentrically assign human purposes to physical events
C) cannot mentally go through a series of steps in a problem and then reverse direction
D) believe that physical characteristics of objects remain the same, even when their outward appearance changes
St. John's Water Dog (Extinct)
A harbour porpoise at an aquarium. In the wild, porpoises rarely jump out of the water.
Water in a can
Properties of Water
Honey should never be given to children younger than one year of age