Billy refuses to drink his orange juice from the 1/2 full glass that his mother gives to him. He wants her to pour the juice into his favorite cup and watches his mother fill it to the brim. Billy likes his cup better because he gets more juice in it. With what cognitive concept in Piaget’s theory is Billy having trouble?
A. Accommodation
B. Assimilation
C. Conservation
D. Semiotic function
Answer:C
Billy refuses to drink his orange juice from the 1/2 full glass that his mother gives to him. He wants her to pour the juice into his favorite cup and watches his mother fill it to the brim. Billy likes his cup better because he gets more juice in it. With what cognitive concept in Piaget’s theory is Billy having trouble?
A. Accommodation B. Assimilation C. Conservation D. Semiotic function
Explanation: C) The cognitive concept illustrated by Billy’s thinking that he gets more juice in his small cup than in the half-full larger cup is an example of a child who has not yet developed Piaget’s concept of conservation.