DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD
Question
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Conservation
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Egocentric
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Assimilation
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Accommodation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Conservation refers to the idea that a quantity remains the same despite changes in appearance.
Detailed explanation-2: -conservation law, also called law of conservation, in physics, a principle that states that a certain physical property (i.e., a measurable quantity) does not change in the course of time within an isolated physical system.
Detailed explanation-3: -Conservation, in child development, is a logical thinking ability first studied by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget. In short, being able to conserve means knowing that a quantity doesn’t change if it’s been altered (by being stretched, cut, elongated, spread out, shrunk, poured, etc).
Detailed explanation-4: -Enculturation is the process where the culture that is currently established teaches an individual the accepted norms and values of the culture or society where the individual lives.