Miss Johnson gave Mark and Tia equal sized lumps of clay.Tia immediately rolled hers into a long shape.Mark cried and complained that Tia had received more clay.Mark's behaviour represents

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Mark's behavior represents an inability to conserve, which is a concept of conservation demonstrated in Piaget's theory. Children who can conserve understand that certain properties of objects, such as their quantity or shape, remain the same even when their appearance is altered. In this case, Mark could not conserve as he believed that Tia had received more clay even though they had equal amounts.

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