Psychological Experiments On Children's Cognitive Development

I had the pleasure to interview two children for this interview assignment project. I interviewed my neighbor Gaby, who is 11 years old and my other neighbor Collin, who is 8 years old. Piaget acknowledged that some children may pass through the stages at different ages than the averages noted above and that some children may show characteristics of more than one stage at a given time (Koocher). After interviewing these two I believe this quote is a true statement because Gaby is 3 years older than Collin and during her questionnaire she had more intellectual abilities on the experiments than him. I assume if Gaby was Collin’s age she would have less knowledge on the experiments due to complex of understanding of the world.
The first experiment was a conservation of number task to test the children’s cognitive development using Piaget’s theory. To start off this experiment, I traced ten dimes on red construction paper and ten on blue construction paper. I cut them out and placed the red on top and the blue on the bottom. Gaby said there was the same number of circles. I spaced out the blue cut outs and asked her if she thought there was more or the same. Her response was the same because I had only spaced out them out. On …show more content…
I asked Gaby which one had more and she said red. I asked her if we made two trains of red skittles and blue skittles which one would be longer? She said the red train.
The second part of this project was to test the children’s development using Kohlberg’s theory. I told Gaby the Kohlberg’s classic Heinz dilemma. Gaby’s response was that Heinz did the right thing by stealing the medicine for his wife to be in good health. I told her that stealing is illegal and she said that in certain situations it MAY be alright to do so. Collin’s response was total opposite and said the husband was in the wrong for stealing the medicine because “stealing is bad and then you’d go to