OAE - Early Childhood Education with 100% CORRECT Answers

conservation - the cognitive ability to understand that objects or substances retain their properties of numbers or amounts even when their appearance, shape, or configuration changes. (relates to number, length, mass, weight, and volume) Ex: an experimenter the same amount of liquid into a short, wide container and a tall thin one 5 - A child's conservation ability begins around the age of ______ Reversibility - Why do older kids understand the conservation of pouring the same amount of liquid into a short, wide container and a tall thin one? preoperational - What stage of development is this? 2 to about 7 years old -Uses symbols- words, paintings, drawings, movements- to represent experience and images in their mind; appearances of concrete objects are perceived naively. Doesn't understand conservation of matter. -Egocentrc -Draws a picture of a flower in the garden at home. Perceives a tall glass as having more water than shorter, wider glass, even though the child has observed that the same volume of water was poured from the shorter wider glass into the taller glass. Develop proficiency in inductive logic animism - asigning human qualities, feelings, and actions to inanimate objects (common in the preoperational stage). Ex "The sub was angry at me and burned me."