Five-year-old Latoya watches her father place a ball in each of six bowls. She agrees that there are just as many balls as bowls
. Her father then removes the balls and spreads them out in a row that extends beyond the row of bowls. Latoya says there are now more balls than bowls. According to Piaget, Latoya lacks the concept of:
In Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Theory, conservation is a logical thinking skill that enables us to conclude that a specific quantity will remain the same notwithstanding any change of the container, shape, or size. According to Piaget´s theory, children udergoing the preoperational stage of development between ages 2 to 7 don´t have this conservation capacity yet. Conservation emerges in the concrete operational stage (ages 7 to 11).
