When presented with Piaget’s conservation tasks, 9-year-old Ramon demonstrates reversibility. This means that Ramon can ________. a.focus on several aspects of a problem and then center on just one b.think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction c.order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight d.focus on relations between a general category and two specific categories at the same time

The concept of conservation tasks was tested by Jean Piaget while experimenting with the different cognitive abilities of a child. Conservation refers to a child's ability to conserve the schema of a particular object, irrespective of the transformation it undergoes, and the relative ability to identify the same object after transformation or with other identical objects. This capacity is missing in the pre-operational stage of children, ranging from ages two to six years. Conservation is first manifested in the concrete operational stage (7-11 years) in which children start to grow the capacity of rational and logical thoughts. Likewise, reversibility is another function of rational thought in which an individual is able to mentally reverse a sequence of changed events and restore the original condition of the object, or reverse the changed state to the original condition mentally. This mental capacity is also accomplished during the concrete operational stage of cognitive development in children, ranging from seven to eleven years age. The correct answer is- b. think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction Explanation- Reversibility refers to the mental function in which one can mentally reverse a sequence of changed events and restore the original condition in the mind, and vice-versa. Hence, this is the best option. Wrong Answers- a. focus on several aspects of a problem and then center on just one- This is the wrong definition of reversibility and is instead, characteristic of decentering and centration. The decentering operation helps the child to consider more than one aspect of an object, and the centration operation makes a child focus on just one aspect irrespective of the others. c. order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight- This is characteristic of seriation in which one is able to arrange a list of items according to a particular quantitative criterion and not reversibility. Hence, this is the incorrect option. d. focus on relations between a general category and two specific categories at the same time- The ability to focus on relationships between various categories is known as transitivity and not reversibility. Hence, this is not the correct option.

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When presented with Piaget’s conservation tasks, 9-year-old Ramon demonstrates reversibility. This means that Ramon can ________.

	a.	focus on several aspects of a problem and then center on just one
	b.	think through a series of steps and then mentally reverse direction
	c.	order items along a quantitative dimension, such as length or weight
	d.	focus on relations between a general category and two specific categories at the same time