Samantha gives both her 3-year-old and her 4-year-old children identically shaped glasses of juice in order to avoid conflict over who has the most. Samantha is showing her awareness of what limitation in her children's thinking skills?

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Harold Farmer

14 August, 09:12

Samantha gives both her 3-year-old and her 4-year-old children identically shaped glasses of juice in order to avoid conflict over who has the most. Samantha is showing her awareness of what limitation in her children's thinking skills?

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Meghan Maxwell · Answer 1

Samantha is showing her awareness of the problem with conservation limitation in her children's thinking skills.

Explanation:

Piaget's theory of conservation is understood as a child's ability to know that the general properties of an object will remain the same even if it changes in form. For example, pouring milk from a small glass into a larger glass; the quantity is the same.

This occurs when a child's abstract thinking has developed and he/she not only thinks in concrete terms anymore.

Samantha understands this and therefore provides her children with identical shaped glasses so they won't fight because they have not developed conservation thinking yet and would think that the other has more.