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WorksheetsPiaget's & Inhelder 3 Mountains Task
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
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
Which 3 answers are strengths of Piaget & Inhelder's (1956) 3 Mountains Task?
study procedure was standardised (same for all children)
results were rich and detailed (valid)
controlled experimental method
other studies challenged the findings
Which 2 answers are weaknesses of PIaget & Inhelder's (1956) 3 Mountains Task?
other studies challenged the findings
the findings suggest children develop in progressively instead of stages
controlled experimental method
results were rich and detailed
Borke (1975) put the 3 Mountains model on a turn table and found that...
children decentred later than Piaget & Inhelder found.
Children decentred earlier than Piaget & Inhelder found.
Repacholi & Gopnik (1994) 🥦 found that children as young ___ could understand others' POV.
12 months old
14 months old
18 months old
