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Piaget's Experiment In Figure 7.5 Analysis

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Piaget’s experiment in figure 7.5 displays a child’s thought process concerning multiple layers of information. His experiment included showing a child two identical glasses of water. Both glasses appeared to be the same. The child concluded that the water was the same in both glasses. When a taller and thinner glass was utilized the child automatically proclaims that the new thinner glass has more water in it. Why would a child see a glass of water, that has the same amount in it as the other, and remain to be determined that one has more content than the other.
Despite the law of conservation of mass that states mass cannot spontaneously degenerate and change, children usually do not understand this advanced thought. Children between the
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