Piaget Conservation Test. Piaget spread out his row of counters and asked the child if there were still the same number of counters. Thank the test subject for helping you with your human behavior science fair project.
Conservation refers to the ability to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container shape or apparent size. During the pre operational stage defined by piaget a child fails to pass a series of tests called conservation experiments. The test subject has completed the tests.
Conservation tasks test a child s ability to see that some properties are conserved or invariant after an object undergoes physical transformation.
A typical 4 5 year old on piagetian conservation tasks. The following tasks also explain the different types of conservation. Conservation refers to the ability to determine that a certain quantity will remain the same despite adjustment of the container shape or apparent size. The seven piagetian conservation tasks.