An experimenter shows a child two clay "sausages" that are identical in size and shape and then allows the child to watch as she rolls one of the clay sausages into a longer, thinner sausage. The experimenter then asks the child whether the two clay sausages still contain the same amount of clay. This experiment was designed to examine:

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This experiment is designed to examine the concept of conservation, which is the understanding that certain properties of objects, like volume or mass, remain the same despite changes in the form or appearance of the objects.

An Experimenter Shows a Child Two Clay "Sausages" That Are