Conservation Piaget Examples. For example in his conservation of mass experiment a bit of clay which piaget called plasticene was rolled into a ball. An example of understanding conservation would be a child s ability to identify two identical objects as the same no matter the order placement or.
Piaget described several conservation experiments. If one row is shortened children failed to notice that the two rows are the same. Piaget s test for conservation of number is described as two rows with same number of things examples.
Conservation it s the understanding that a quantity stays the same even if you change the size shape or container it s in.
As piaget noted children in the early preoperational period fail on all of these tasks typically giving answers that conform to the most salient dimension e g in the number conservation task 3 and 4 year olds typically state that the. Conservation of number see video below develops soon after this. An older child on the other hand knows that the amount of clay is the. Several physical quantities are unchanged or conserved in the face of spatial or configurational transformations.