Amenti can easily tell that glasses of different shapes will still hold the same amount of water,but she still believes that a long,spread out row of five quarters has more than a scrunched together group of five quarters.Jean Piaget would say that Amenti is demonstrating
A)formal operations.
B)object permanence.
C)horizontal decalage.
D)transitive inference.

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Horizontal decalage refers to the idea that children may acquire different cognitive abilities at different times, even within the same stage of development. In this case, Amenti's understanding of conservation (the idea that the amount of a substance remains the same despite changes in its shape or appearance) may not have generalized to other areas, such as her understanding of number. Piaget believed that children's understanding of conservation typically develops around age 7, but that they may continue to struggle with the concept when it comes to other variables, such as quantity or length. Therefore, Amenti's belief that a spread out row of quarters has more than a scrunched together group may be an example of horizontal decalage, where she has not yet applied her conservation skills to the realm of number.

Amenti Can Easily Tell That Glasses of Different Shapes Will