Seven-year-old Alice is working with clay in art class,and she rolls a round ball of clay between her hands until it becomes a long rope of clay.However,she decides that she does not want the rope of clay,but would prefer that the clay be in the shape of a ball again.Alice knows that this is possible.Piaget would say that Alice is demonstrating the knowledge of

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The ability to recognize that objects can be changed back to their original form is known as reversibility, and Alice demonstrates this by understanding that the clay can be reshaped into a ball again. Option A, formation, is not a concept in Piaget's theory. Option B, decentering, refers to the ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation simultaneously, which Alice is not demonstrating in this scenario. Option D, conservation, refers to the ability to recognize that the quantity of a substance remains the same even when its shape changes, which is not relevant to this scenario.

Seven-Year-Old Alice Is Working with Clay in Art Class,and She