Piaget emphasized children's lack of conservation as a quality of

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Piaget believed that children in the preoperational stage (ages 2-7) lack conservation, which is the understanding that quantity remains the same even if the appearance of the object changes. This is exemplified by the classic conservation tasks where a child may believe that two glasses of the same amount of liquid are not equal if one glass appears taller or wider than the other.

Piaget Emphasized Children's Lack of Conservation as a Quality of