Piagetian Tasks

Today we were able to see Piaget's stages of cognitive development in action as Prof. Cox illustrated her 3 year old and 7 year old doing several Piagetian Tasks. It was very interesting to see the difference between how her 3 year old responded to the questions and how her 7 year old responded to the questions. I found it very interesting that at 7 years old, her daughter was able to explain very clearly the reasons behind why she made the decisions she did. I was very excited to go home and "experiment" with my child.

So, here are the results of my "experimentation" with my 3 year old daughter "Livvy". You will see a blurb of the water task, however after attempting that one I realized that although I was using a taller glass, the difference in the level of water wasn't great enough for her to recognize it. (So we scrapped that one). Enjoy.



After thoughts: Now, for the "block" test, I modified the one listed and used blocks instead of beads because we didn't have any. I am not sure if that contributed to the difference or not. You will see that she says that there are more blocks than blue blocks (contrary to what she is "supposed" to say). I did this task with her twice and both times she said there were more blocks than blue blocks. However, you will also see that she doesn't have the ability to defend her answer.

I loved doing this assignment and had a blast....as did my little one. She was ever so eager to help mom with her homework!