Free Choice (Testing Conservation)
The test of conservation was designed by Piaget to check if young children possessed the four characteristics of preoperational thought: centration, focus on appearance, static reasoning, and irreversibility (pg.258-259). Utilizing my available sample, I conducted this observation on the same three children from earlier: Bella, a three-year-old girl, Korbyn, an eight-year-old boy, and Hy’Cei, an eleven-year-old girl. The observations were done individually to avoid any distractions and confounds and they were to test the conservation of volume using liquid and number using pennies.
Bella was the first to go so I asked her to have a seat before a table that had two equal glasses of liquid and a narrower glass beside them. I asked her if they had the same amount. She looked closer and agreed that they did. I then poured one of them into the taller glass and asked her if they were still the same. She disagreed and pointed at the smaller, yet wider glass as having more. I poured the water back into the smaller glass and asked her the same question. She pointed at the exact same one and told me it had more. …show more content…
We began by confirming that both the glasses contained the same amount of water. She looked long and hard and even held her finger up to measure until I had to tell her it was not a trick. I poured the smaller glass into the taller one and she quickly said they were the same. When I poured the water back she gave me an, “are you kidding,” look that followed with, “they are still the same.” After another repetition she told that they would not change because they both contained the same amount of water. When I laid out the pennies before us, she actually counted them to make sure how many we each had. I spread mine out and asked her who had more and she said, “they are still the same amount, you only spread them
The test of conservation was designed by Piaget to check if young children possessed the four characteristics of preoperational thought: centration, focus on appearance, static reasoning, and irreversibility (pg.258-259). Utilizing my available sample, I conducted this observation on the same three children from earlier: Bella, a three-year-old girl, Korbyn, an eight-year-old boy, and Hy’Cei, an eleven-year-old girl. The observations were done individually to avoid any distractions and confounds and they were to test the conservation of volume using liquid and number using pennies.
Bella was the first to go so I asked her to have a seat before a table that had two equal glasses of liquid and a narrower glass beside them. I asked her if they had the same amount. She looked closer and agreed that they did. I then poured one of them into the taller glass and asked her if they were still the same. She disagreed and pointed at the smaller, yet wider glass as having more. I poured the water back into the smaller glass and asked her the same question. She pointed at the exact same one and told me it had more. …show more content…
We began by confirming that both the glasses contained the same amount of water. She looked long and hard and even held her finger up to measure until I had to tell her it was not a trick. I poured the smaller glass into the taller one and she quickly said they were the same. When I poured the water back she gave me an, “are you kidding,” look that followed with, “they are still the same.” After another repetition she told that they would not change because they both contained the same amount of water. When I laid out the pennies before us, she actually counted them to make sure how many we each had. I spread mine out and asked her who had more and she said, “they are still the same amount, you only spread them