Observation Of Piaget's Theory

The child I observed was my cousin, he is 5 years old and he goes to school, he is in kindergarten. After taking permission from his mother I performed the conversation tasks with him alone in his dining room.
I believe that my cousin's performance did conform what I expected from piglet’s theory because Piaget’s theory about preoperational thought states that children aged 2-6 years old have developed cognitive skills including language and imagination but have not yet developed logical thinking. My cousin’s performance with the conversation task showed that children between the ages 2-6 do not think logically because during the tasks my cousin was responding to the tasks by what he saw and not logically.
For the conservation of mass, I used clay that I molded into two equal size balls and asked my cousin to tell me which has more and he said “they are same” and then I flatten one of the ball and asked the same question again and he said “the flat one is has more clay because its flat”. I believe that this experiment showed that my cousin exhibited centration as he only focused on the molded ball becoming flatten, and since it was flat he saw that it had …show more content…
During the conversation of mass observation my cousin only focused on the clay being flatten and ignored the fact that he just had said the clay balls had equal amount of clay. This observation showed that my cousin only focused of the center of the idea and ignored all other attributes that were not visible. Even in the next task which was the conversation of number my cousin repeated the same steps he only focused on the center of the idea which in this case was the space between the pennies. He thought since there was more room it meant that it had more pennies he ignored that the pennies were the same number and I did not add or take away any I just spread them