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A child is shown two identical glasses of water. The water of one glass is poured into a taller and thinner glass. The child says that the…

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A child is shown two identical glasses of water. The water of one glass is poured into a taller and thinner glass. The child says that the taller glass has more water. Which one of the following is the most appropriate explanation as per Piaget?

  • AThe child is in the concrete operational stage and lacks reversibility
  • BThe child is in the sensorimotor stage and lacks object permanence
  • CThe child is in the pre-operational stage and has not yet attained conservation
  • DThe child is in the formal operational stage and lacks hypothetical thinking
Correct answer: C

Explanation

Failure to conserve quantity is typical of the pre-operational stage (about 2–7 years), when thinking is centred on a single salient feature.

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