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THE ACQUISITION OF CONSERVATION OF SUBSTANCE AND WEIGHT IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Smedslund Jan
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1961.tb01234.x
Subject(s) - psychology , extinction (optical mineralogy) , perception , cognitive psychology , representation (politics) , developmental psychology , social psychology , neuroscience , chemistry , mineralogy , politics , political science , law
S medslund , J. The acquisition of conservation of substance and weight in children. IV. Attempt at extinction of the visual components of the weight concept. Scand. J. Psychol ., 1961, 2, 153–155.—The normal development from non‐conservation to conservation is also a transition from a perception‐bound concept to one liberated from the dependence on immediate perception. Using 6‐year‐old children it was attempted to extinguish the visual cues to weight by making them artificially unreliable. This procedure was expected to make the subjects search for more reliable cues at the level of symbolic representation of past events, and thereby to lead to conservation. The prediction was not borne out.