Abstract:Four liquid comparison tasks were designed to assess children's knowledge of functional relations, one-directional compositions of functional relations (greater + greater yield greater) and countervailing compositions (greater + lesser yield ?) in 4to 7-year-olds. O n one task, in which height indexed quantity, children of every age group performed well. Success on the other comparison tasks was related to operative level, as indexed by conservation performance, and age. More advanced pre-operational children … Show more
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