The third question, which asked how Holly thinks her father will feel if he finds she climbed the tree, was not answered easily. At first she stated “I don’t know”, and after asking again she just said that “she wouldn 't be able to go outside anymore”. With this response it shows some understanding of others perspectives because she knew that Holly’s father might punish his daughter for disobeying him but she could not name the exact emotion that he would feel. The last question about this story proved the most difficult for her. It was a question about what she would chose to do if she was Holly. She repeated a lot of her earlier answers to the questions and never truly said if she would help the kitten or follow her father’s orders. This may show that she is not cognitively developed enough to truly put herself in others shoes and make choices about a situation she is not currently involved in. Overall the student showed that she is gradually moving from the pre operational stage and moving into the concrete operational stage. She showed that she was still in the pre operational stage
The third question, which asked how Holly thinks her father will feel if he finds she climbed the tree, was not answered easily. At first she stated “I don’t know”, and after asking again she just said that “she wouldn 't be able to go outside anymore”. With this response it shows some understanding of others perspectives because she knew that Holly’s father might punish his daughter for disobeying him but she could not name the exact emotion that he would feel. The last question about this story proved the most difficult for her. It was a question about what she would chose to do if she was Holly. She repeated a lot of her earlier answers to the questions and never truly said if she would help the kitten or follow her father’s orders. This may show that she is not cognitively developed enough to truly put herself in others shoes and make choices about a situation she is not currently involved in. Overall the student showed that she is gradually moving from the pre operational stage and moving into the concrete operational stage. She showed that she was still in the pre operational stage