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Publication Date: 1992
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Adults' Failure on Misleading Weight-Conservation Tests: A Developmental Analysis.
Winer, Gerald A.; And Others
Developmental Psychology, v28 n1 p109-20 Jan 1992
Five studies examined adults' responses to weight conservation questions which were constructed to give subjects a choice of two incorrect answers. The results showed that adults (1) acquiesced to the misleading implications of the questions; and (2) exhibited greater nonconservation in response to questions about the body than about external referents. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks, Human Body, Piagetian Theory, Weight (Mass)
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Language: English
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