If a 4½-year-old child is asked to draw a person who is first standing upright and then has fallen down,the child is likely to draw the figure in the vertical position,and then the figure lying in the horizontal position with no other intermediate pictures to demonstrate the person falling.This child would be showing a lack of understanding of what Piagetian concept?

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The child is showing a lack of understanding of transformation, which is the ability to understand the process of change from one state to another. In this case, the child does not depict the intermediate stages of the person falling.

If a 4½-Year-Old Child Is Asked to Draw a Person