Recent Studies Suggest That Piaget's Methods May Have Led Him

question 130

Multiple Choice

Recent studies suggest that Piaget's methods may have led him to underestimate the understanding of number conservation in young children. A particular problem with his methods is that children __________.

• A) may change their answers simply because they were asked the same question twice (Does this row have more or less than this row?)
• B) easily confuse more and less to mean longer and shorter
• C) may forget the question in the time it takes the experimenter to rearrange the items in one row
• D) may think that the point of this game is to fool the experimenter by giving the wrong answer

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Definitions:

Asexual Reproduction

A mode of reproduction by which offspring arise from a single organism, inheriting the genes of that parent only, seen in many plants and some animal species.

Vegetative Propagation

A form of asexual reproduction in plants where new individuals are formed without the production of seeds or spores.

Gametes

Reproductive cells (sperm in males and eggs in females) that contain half the genetic information of the parent and can unite with another gamete to form a zygote.

Meiosis

A biological process of cell division that reduces the chromosome number by half, creating four haploid cells, each genetically distinct from the parent cell.