7-year-old Alice is working with clay in art class, and she rolls a round ball of clay between her hands until it becomes a long rope of clay. However, she decides that she doesn't want the rope of clay, but would prefer that the clay is in the shape of a ball again. Alice knows that this is possible. Piaget would say that Alice is demonstrating the knowledge of.

Reversibility

Explanation:

Jean Piaget was a psychologist that developed a theory of cognitive development according to which we go through different stages during childhood and adolescence in which our thinking gets more complex until we reach the logic reasoning during adolescence.

One of the concepts that Piaget mentions in his theory is the concept of reversibility, according to which, kids start to understand that the initial conditions of an object can be restored. In other words, we can take an object and change its form but we can also make it go back to its original form and the object will remain the same.

In this example, Alice is working with clay and she rolls a ball of it, then she transforms it into a rope and then she wants it to go back to the shape of a ball again and she knows that this transformation is possible. Alice knows that the first shape the clay had can be restored and the object will be the same. Therefore, she is demonstrating the knowledge of reversibility.

Reversibility

Explanation:

This stage according to Piaget's theory of cognitive development occurs in the third stage called the concrete operational stage. The children are within the age range of 7-12. According to Piaget during this particular age range the children show an increase in logical thinking. The development of the Reversibility process, which is the ability to recognize numbers or objects can be changed and returned to their original condition. For example, in the case of 7-year - old Alice wanting the rope of clay to be changed back into the shape of a ball and Alice knows it is possible.