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Download full textMiller, Scott A.; Lipps, Leann – 1972
This study attempted to determine whether children will relinquish their belief in Piagetian concepts upon presentation of disconfirming evidence. Two age groups were tested: third- and fourth-grade and sixth-grade. Conservation of weight and transitivity of weight were the concepts examined; the discrepant feedback consisted of three trials with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
