Child Development Piaget's Conservation and Term Paper

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I hypothesizes that children at what Piaget would call a preoperational stage do in fact perform complex analysis of numbers and situations, but that they approach this analysis is a tentative and relative way which is open to influence and negation from outside sources. More succinctly:

children at early stages do perform conservation but consider it relative to mitigating factors and prone to correction.

The following few pages will follow an interview with a child. After describing the situation and method of this interview and a summary of the way in which outside influence was controlled as much as possible, the results of the interview will be presented in brief.

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From these results it is hoped a conclusion as to the application of Piaget's stages to the actual relative task of conservation may be analyzed.

The interviewee for this research is a four-going-on-five-year-old female child, from a white lower-middle class family consisting of a single mother and the boyfriend whose hosue she shares. Despite this inauspicious family circumstance, the girl (who likes to go by Fairy Princess Lobelia) is extremely bright and imaginative. She has participated for almost a year in a fantasy re-enactment group which I.....

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