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Piagetian task

Piagetian task

any of a variety of tasks developed by Jean piaget to assess the cognitive abilities of infants, children, or adolescents. Examples include, in infancy, object permanence tasks and deferred imitation; in childhood, conservation, tests of perceptual perspective taking (e.g., the three-mountains test), and class inclusion; and in adolescence, the pendulum problem.

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