Oscar, a college student, is checking seven-year-old Meyer to see what cognitive skills he has. He asks him to do some basic conservation tasks. Meyer has correctly responded that there is still the same amount of clay, whether it is in a round ball or rolled out into a hotdog-type shape. When Oscar asks why, Meyer demonstrates how the hotdog-type shaped piece of clay can be rolled back into a ball. This shows that Meyer has a good grasp of

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Meyer's ability to understand that the clay can be transformed from one shape to another and still maintain the same amount shows his grasp of transformational thought. This is a key cognitive skill in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which suggests that children develop cognitive skills through stages, with each stage characterized by a particular type of thinking. Assimilation (A) refers to the process of incorporating new information into existing schemas, equilibrium (C) refers to the balance between existing mental structures and new experiences, and primary circular reactions (D) refer to activities that occur in infants during the sensorimotor stage. None of these terms accurately describe Meyer's abilities in this scenario.

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