An Experimenter Shows a Child Two Equal Glasses of Water

question 178

Multiple Choice

An experimenter shows a child two equal glasses of water and then pours the water from one of them into a glass of a different shape. Then the experimenter asks whether the new glass has more or less water than the other one. What concept is the experimenter testing?

• A) assimilation
• B) object permanence
• C) conservation
• D) hypothetical reasoning

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