Piagetian Task

I choose to do the task with my four year old cousin. I choose to do task two with the pennies, task three with the pencils or sticks, and task six with the water. I first did the penny task, I lined up two rows of five pennies close together and asked if they had the same number of pennies in them, the child responded yes. Then I spread out the top row of pennies so they were farther apart, then I asked again if they had the same amount of pennies in them and she responded "No, because now the top row was longer." Then I did the stick one but I used pencils instead. I had two pencils that were not sharpened and I laid them on the table and asked if they were the same length and she said "Yes". Then I moved the top one to the left a little and asked if they were the same length still, and she said "No, because the top one was longer now." Then I did the water task. I had two glasses of water in the same size of cup with the same amount of water in both of them. I then asked her if they had the same amount of water in them and she responded "Yes". Then I took one of the glasses and transferred into another shorter, wider glass. I than asked if they still had the same amount of water in them, she responded, "No, because now the shorter one had less" and she pointed to where the water level was and said "see, this one is only to here." This little girl is in the preoperational stage, because she still lacks conservation knowledge.