Piaget Conservation Of Number. Piaget spread out his row of counters and asked the child if there were still the same number of counters. Conservation of number the logical thinking ability to recognise that the numerical value of an object remains invariant with physical rearrangement is a fundamental cognitive milestone during children s development crawford 2008 p.
What about the second child. Piaget 1967 1971 as cited in silverman geiringer 1973 asserted that at each stage of development there is a stable equilibrium of one s mental structures p. Piaget is perhaps better known for these demonstrations than anything else.
Piaget spread out his row of counters and asked the child if there were still the same number of counters.
The conservation tasks and hence piaget s theory have been criticized on a number of fronts in regards to research methods. Many studies have looked at variations of the conservation tasks and how these variations affect children s responses. Piaget spread out his row of counters and asked the child if there were still the same number of counters. Piaget 1967 1971 as cited in silverman geiringer 1973 asserted that at each stage of development there is a stable equilibrium of one s mental structures p.
