Jean Piaget and the Conversational Task

The noned psychologist and philosopher Jean Pi hop ont argued that young children were not capable of operations corresponding mental actions that obey tenacious rules. He comp ared younger children to old children who he believed were more workmanlike and had r for each(prenominal) oneed the concrete operational typify in their life. Piaget believed that younger childrens thinking was limited to completely one aspect of a situation at a time. To bring up his conjecture, Piaget conducted some known conservation tasks for young children among the ages of two and ten to prove his possible action that younger children are not yet perspicuous thinkers. By conservation, he refers it to the estimate that certain physical characteristics of objects catch ones breath the homogeneous, even when their push throughward show changes (Berk 321). I make believe recreated terzetto of Piagets conservation tasks with my trey year old full cousin Lola to test Piagets theory to see if she was a pellucid thinker at much(prenominal) a young age or not. I explained to Lola that we were tone ending to have a half-size fun with some pennies, furnish of water, and some clay. Lola was eager and automatic to participate so we didnt ingest anytime getting started.\nThe first conservational task that I conducted with Lola was with numbers, so I used twelve pennies. number 1 I spread out a dustup of sestet pennies and a second path of six pennies right on a lower floor the first actors line opus Lola watched the entire time. I asked Lola were the same number of pennies in each course of action. After counting each line to herself twice she told me Yes. thus in front of her I spread the first row of pennies out to make the row a little longer. I then asked Lola again were in that location the same amount of pennies in each row or does one row have more. She then counted each row to herself then responded with Yes!, You just travel some pennies around. Lola passed the first conservational tasks and really proved Piagets theory wrong.\nThe second conservational task I decided to do with Lola was with liquid. I gathe...