How is a child's capacity to solve conservation problems related to advances in information processing abilities?
A. Children need to be able to sense differences (sensory memory) in objects in order to conserve.
B. Numerical conservation is associated with the development of working memory.
C. Conservation ability involves information stored in long-term memory.
D. Children use metacognitive strategies to solve conservation problems, which are a part of information processing.
Answer: B
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