Abstract
Five studies were conducted on adults' responses to weight conservation question, constructed to give subjects a choice of 2 alternative answers, neither of which was correct. The results of 2 initial studies showed that adults readily acquiesced to the misleading implications of the questions. The results of 3 other studies showed there was more nonconservation when misleading questions were directed at the body than at external referents and the importance of task demands and of familiarity with Piaget. In general, the results were consistent with the hypothesis that adults possess different theories or ways of conceptualizing weight that can be ordered on a developmental dimension ranging from the more egocentric to the more abstract and technical
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