In the Conservation-Of-Liquid Task Described in the Text, Children Who

question 41

Multiple Choice

In the conservation-of-liquid task described in the text, children who watch the water being poured from the original glass to the taller glass and fail to understand the amount of water remains the same are lacking __________.

• A)conservation
• B)animism
• C)centration
• D)reversibility

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Definitions:

Slope

The slope represents the rate of change between two variables on a graph, indicating how much one variable changes for a unit change in another variable.

Criterion Variable

The dependent variable in a study that is predicted or explained by the independent variable(s).

Predictor Variable

An independent variable in statistical models that is used to predict or explain changes in the dependent variable (response variable).

Nominal Variable

A nominal variable is a type of categorical variable for which there is no natural ordering among the categories.