Piaget's Theories and Experiment

Piaget believed that children in the pre-operational stage have difficulty taking the perspective of another person. This is known as:

• Conservation

• Egocentrism

• Equilibrium

• Accommodation

Who were the participants in Piaget & Inhelder's (1956) observational study?

• 100 Swiss children

• 53 child-parent pairs from Chicago

• 4500 New Yorkers

• 20 British people

Piaget & Inhelder did the Three Mountains task of which two groups of children?

• Sensorimotor stage

• Pre-operational stage

• Concrete operational stage

• Formal operational stage

Which one of these was NOT one of the pieces of equipment used in the Three Mountains Task?

• 10 pictures of the 3 mountains model

• 3cm Wooden doll

• Turn table that the mountainis model was placed on

• Coloured card in the same colour as the 3 mountains

• 3 mountains model

Which one of these was NOT one of the ways Piaget & Inhelder questioned the children?

• Pour water into different shaped glasses and ask if they held the same amount of liquid

• Place the doll in the correct position to match the picture's viewpoint

• Pick the correct picture to match the viewpoint of the doll

• Place the coloured cards to show the viewpoint of the doll

In the 3 Mountains Task, children aged 4-6.5yrs (pre-operational stage) could decentre and understand the viewpoint of others.

• True

• False

In the 3 Mountains Task, children aged 6.5-9 yrs (concrete operational stage) could do the task correctly _______.

• inconsistently (sometimes).

• none of the time.

• consistently (all the time).

• I'm not sure...

What age group were non-egocentric and consistently did the 3 Mountains Task correctly?

• 0-2 yrs (sensorimotor stage)

• 4-6.5 yrs (pre-operational)

• 6.5-9 yrs (concrete operational)

• 9-12 yrs (concrete operational)

Piaget and Inhelder concluded that children up to 7 yrs old were egocentric.

• True

• False

BONUS QUESTION: When children think glasses of different shape have different amounts of liquid, this is the inability to...

• decentre

• count

• conserve

• think abstractly