Juan and his little sister,Anne,are each given a large cookie.Their mother breaks Anne's cookie into four pieces to enable her to eat it easily.Juan immediately begins to cry and says that it is not fair for his sister to get so many cookies when he only has one.Juan is showing a lack of:
A)constancy.
B)conservation.
C)intuition.
D)symbolic function.

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Juan is showing a lack of conservation, which is the ability to understand that even if the appearance of an object changes, its basic properties remain the same (such as the amount of cookie each person has). He is focused solely on the visual appearance of the cookies and not the fact that they still have the same amount of cookie overall.

Juan and His Little Sister,Anne,are Each Given a Large Cookie