A 4-Year-Old Child Is Shown a Row of Seven Red

A 4-year-old child is shown a row of seven red checkers. He is asked to place a black checker immediately adjacent to each red one. Upon doing so, the child agrees that there are as many red as black checkers. The experimenter then spreads out the black checkers so that they lie in a line longer than the red checkers. The experimenter asks whether there are more red checkers or more black checkers in order to determine whether the child understands __________.

A) object permanence
B) conservation of number
C) conservation of quantity
D) object constancy

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