Piagets conservation skills are pretty confusing. Why are these so important in understanding cognition?
It helps to think about children as little scientists in discovering the principles of how the world operates. Piaget looked at the various aspects of the physical world (e.g., number, volume, length) and carefully observed how his own children acquired their understanding of these skills. When a child learns how a particular dimension works, then that child has demonstrated conservation. If you know a preoperational child, try experimenting with conservation. Find two different shaped containers and pour water from one to the other. The preoperational child will be unduly influenced by the shape of the container. The larger appearing chamber will be seen as having more water. Piaget found that these skills tended to develop in children in predictable ways and described these processes in his stage theories of cognitive development.
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