PY 352 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Aphorism, Socalled, Animism

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 352
• Professor: Jeffrey G Parker

Document Summary

Conservation is a mental skill that most mature people and children older than about 7 years have. It is the ability to recognize that irrelevant (superficial) changes do not change the quantitative aspects of something, such as number, mass, weight, volume, etc. 3oz of makers mark bourbon is 3oz of makers mark bourbon whether you drink it straight from a shot glass, from a plastic bama cup, or in a jello shot. (don"t try this at home). Compensation is an operation that is used to make conservation possible. The width of the bama cup compensations for the narrowness of the shot glass, all things being equal. By the way, there are other operations that one can use too, such as reversibility and other skills we use such as our language skills, memory, our perceptual skills, and so on. The inability to apply the rule (operation) of compensation leads very young children to be misled on a conservation task.