An Investigator Shows a Child Two Balls of Clay of Equal

question 79

Multiple Choice

An investigator shows a child two balls of clay of equal size and then squashes one of them and asks the child whether the squashed ball has more clay than the round ball. The experimenter is testing whether the child has the concept of

• A) object permanence.
• B) accommodation.
• C) assimilation.
• D) conservation.