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The professor had separated the class into two groups. Group 1 was the right side, and Group 2 was the left side of the classroom. The entire class had to put their heads down while the professor wrote something on the board. Group 1 was told to raise their head and answer the question on the board. The question was “Do you weigh more running or walking?” They were given the options of running or walking and had to choose between the two. Group 1 put their heads down, and the professor wrote something else on the board and told Group 2 to raise their head and to answer the question. The question was “Do you weigh more running or walking?” The were given the options of running, walking, or neither and had to choose an answer. An independent variable is a variable that is manipulated and whose effect is being studied. The independent variable in this demonstration is the choices that each group had to pick from for their answer. A dependent variable is what changed due to the manipulation of the independent variable. The dependent variable in this demonstration was how the choices that each group had chose, or more specifically, how many people showed that they understood conservation and how many people did not. In Group 1, nine students wrote that you weigh more when running, and seven students wrote that you weigh more …show more content…

Conservation is an idea that we understand something stays the same even though we make some superficial change. In Group 1, the students that said you weigh more while running or walking are representing preoperational thinking because they are failing to conserve. However, this does not prove that the students in Group 1 are still in the preoperational stage. The wording of the question for Group 1 could be considered misleading and can cause us to perform at the preoperational level. We do not always conserve, and this demonstration is an example of

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