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Be sure not to tell the child, You are right! or You are wrong!,
because there is no right or wrong. We are just trying to find out
if Piagets theory about cognitive development is correct.
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Preparing To Do Piaget Conservation Experiments
Experiment # 2
Water Experiment
name
Materials
Needed
3 glasses, 2 full of
water with the same
size, and one is
empty and longer
After his reply, I will ask Ok, Pour one glass of water in the
if we put this water here,
long and empty glass in front of
now, which one has more? Or him
both have the same
amount? Then ask Why?
same pieces of
biscuits
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Exact words I will say:
We have 3 biscuits here, do
you think I distribute them
between us equally? Why?
After he gives me his opinion, I will take his piece and break it
I will say Now, do we have
into 2 pieces, and then put them
the same? Or one of us has
back in front of him
more than the other?
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said We have two rows of nuts
here, do you think both rows have
the same amount of nuts?
3) After he said that both rows are
the same, I separated one row of
nuts, and kept the other one as it
is and asked Now, what do you
think, are they both the same? Or
there is one row that has more
than the other?
4) Unsurprisingly for a child, he
pointed at the separated row and
said that this one has more than
the other one
5) I asked him Why do you think
that this one has more than the
other one?
6) He said that expanding the
distance among nuts in this row,
made it contain more nuts than
the other one
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another glass, which made it
contain more water than the taller
one
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What do the childs responses signify?
Piagets theory states that Hamdans way of thinking and
analyzing things around him, shows that he is a pre-operational
kid. Which means that he cant understand two concepts at the
same time. He understands things on his own way, different
than adults. Which is normal for 4 years old child.
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piece only, he noticed that the distribution of biscuits between
us was unfair. However, when I broke his piece into 2 halves, he
thought that I gave him another piece of biscuit; in which he had
2 pieces just like me. Although I had double the amount of
biscuit he had, yet, he was convinced that both of us had the
same amount of biscuits due to the number of pieces in front of
each one of us.
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Describe the basic procedure of
the task
1) First, I brought 10 pieces of nuts
and put them into 2 rows, each
row has 5 pieces
2) Then I pointed at each row and
said We have two rows of nuts
here, do you think both rows have
the same amount of nuts?
3) After he said that both rows are
the same, I separated one row of
nuts, and kept the other one as it
is and asked Now, what do you
think, are they both the same? Or
there is one row that has more
than the other?
4) He thought for a while and then
said Both are the same
5) I asked What do you mean by
that? He replied People will think
that the taller one has more nuts
because of the distances among
nuts, and it seems bigger, in fact,
both have the same amount of
nuts, because what you just did is
increasing the space among nuts,
not adding more pieces of nuts
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increasing the distance among pieces, not adding more pieces
to the row. Which made him say that both are still the same.
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Describe the basic procedure of
the task
1) At the beginning, I filled 2 same
sized glasses with the same
amount of water, and kept the
empty glass on a side. Then I
told him Look at these two
glasses, do you think that both
glasses have the same amount
of water?
2) After he said that both glasses
have the same amount of water.
I poured one glass of water in
the long empty glass in front of
him, and asked him again Now,
which one has more water? Or
both have the same amount?
3) He replied by saying that both
glasses have the same amount
of water.
4) Then I asked him Why do you
think that both glasses are the
same?
5) He answered Because both
small glasses had the same
amount of water, and when you
poured one small glass into a
taller and bigger glass, the
shape of glass changed, yet, the
amount of water is still the
same. This means if you
returned the water into the
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smaller glass, they will be equal,
which means nothing changed in
the amount of water
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Describe the basic procedure of
the task
1) First of all, I showed him that I
have 3 pieces of biscuits.
2) Then I put 2 pieces of biscuits in
front of me, and 1 piece in front of
him, and asked Do you think that
I distributed them between us
equally? Or one of us has more
than the other?
3) He said that I have more than him,
which is true.
4) So I took his piece of biscuit and
broke it into 2 halves, and asked
Now, do we have the same? I
mean are we equal?
5) He replied No, it is true that both
of us have 2 pieces, but my pieces
are smaller, because what you did
is breaking my piece. I mean you
have 2 big pieces, while I have
only 1 big piece. Breaking my
biscuit means that I still have 1
piece only which is divided into
two parts. In other words, one
piece of my broken biscuit equals
half of one piece you have. So still
you have more biscuits than I do.
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us was unfair. Even when I broke his piece into 2 halves, he
knew that I still have more than him. In addition, he understood
that number of pieces, doesnt determine who has more, yet, it
is the size of biscuit pieces.
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