Quantitative Judgments of Culturally Advantaged and Disadvantaged Preschool Children

Four quantitative judgment tasks in which psycholinguistic and motivational variables were minimized were presented to 35 advantaged and 35 disadvantaged Ss comprising 7 age levels from 2 yr. 4 mo. through 4 yr. 7 mo. of age. Responses indicate that conservation-like cognitive operations may be affected by: (a) difficulty of the discrimination task, (b) presence of cultural disadvantages, and (c) age of advantaged is.