An experimenter presents a child with two identical balls of clay.The experimenter rolls one of the balls into a long,thin piece of clay.The child is then asked if there is more clay in the ball or in the long,thin piece.This Piagetian task is a test to see if the child is capable of:
A)concrete operations.
B)formal operations.
C)inference operations.
D)judgment operations.

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An experimenter presents a child with two identical balls of clay.The experimenter rolls one of the balls into a long,thin piece of clay.The child is then asked if there is more clay in the ball or in the long,thin piece.To answer this question correctly,the child needs imagination that involves a reversible mental action applied to a real,concrete object.In other words,this Piagetian task is a test to see if the child is capable of concrete operations.

An Experimenter Presents a Child with Two Identical Balls of Clay.The