Which of the following is true according to Piaget's concept of conservation?
A) The ability rarely occurs before age nine.
B) The ability requires the ability to see the perspective of others.
C) It means that a child will not be fooled by an apparent change in volume if water is poured from a short, wide glass into a taller, thinner glass.
D) It requires the ability to mentally manipulate symbolic external characteristics in the absence of visual cues.
C
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The development of infant motor skills is best described as:
a. a genetic process with no environmental influence. b. completely due to the effects of encouragement. c. a mixture of biological maturation and learning. d. progressing in continuous, rather than stage, fashion.
Although they now do research to test their ideas, the psychologists in which school of thought, i
nitially, were less interested in treating psychology as a science and stressed more subjective factors? a. behaviorists b. functionalists c. humanists d. structuralists