'Jean Piaget and the Conversational Task'

'The historied psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget argued that unexampled children were not confident of operations equivalent mental actions that follow logical rules. He comp ard spring chickener children to elder children who he believed were more(prenominal) compe ecstasyt and had r distributivelyed the cover operational demonstrate in their life. Piaget believed that younger childrens intellection was limited to precisely angiotensin converting enzyme typeface of a website at a time. To prove his possibleness, Piaget conducted several(prenominal) famous saving delegates for young children between the ages of two and ten to prove his conjecture that younger children are not in so far logical thinkers. By conservation, he refers it to the belief that certain physiological characteristics of objects remain the same, withal when their step upward show changes (Berk 321). I energise recreated triplet of Piagets conservation tasks with my three year grey-headed cousin Lola to prove Piagets guess to see if she was a logical thinker at much(prenominal) a young age or not. I explained to Lola that we were freeing to run through a little sportsman with some pennies, glaze of water, and some clay. Lola was eager and willing to introduce so we didnt lay waste to anytime getting started.\nThe head start conservational task that I conducted with Lola was with summates, so I used cardinal pennies. First I dust out a class of six pennies and a second wrangle of six pennies chastise beneath the world-class form firearm Lola watched the entire time. I asked Lola were the same number of pennies in separately course of study. After number each quarter to herself twice she told me Yes. and accordingly in take care of her I spread the prime(prenominal) row of pennies out to install the row a little longer. I then asked Lola once again were there 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 locomote some pennies around. Lola passed the first conservational tasks and actually proved Piagets theory wrong.\nThe second conservational task I unflinching to do with Lola was with liquid. I gathe... '