Jonah is participating in the liquid conservation task, and according to the production system model, he only uses two productions to guide his reasoning (see Table 11.1, Model I)
He watches as liquid is poured from a short glass into a tall glass and explains that there is more in the new tall glass because
A) it is wider than the original glass.
B) it is taller than the original glass.
C) he can pour it back into the original, shorter glass.
D) the old glasses were initially equal in height.
B) it is taller than the original glass. One of Jonah's two basic productions is that if one glass has a higher level of liquid in it, it must have more than the other glass.
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