Failure of conservation training of disadvantaged black teenagers: a neo-Piagetian interpretation.
From a structural point of view, conservation tasks resemble Witkin's field-dependence situations. According to our neo-Piagetian theory, therefore, the failure of certain disadvantaged black teenagers to profit from conservation training may be related to their field dependence.
D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D003467:Cultural Deprivation; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory