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Psychology / Unit 8   Psych 0887 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Conservation

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The idea

Conservation is the understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or arrangement.

In practice

A child says the taller narrow glass holds more after watching the same water poured into it.

Where people slip

Conservation appears at different ages for number, mass, and volume in the same child.

Your place on the trail

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