False-Belief Task

Piaget’s conservation task is a method for helping adults understand that young children do not think the same way as adults. According to Piaget, children who are at the preoperational stage

(2-7yrs) lack the ability to conserve (Siegler, 42). I performed a replica of his original conservation task that of liquid, length and number, in order to explain how preoperational stage children lack conservation. For the purpose of this experiment and for confidentiality, the name of this child has been changed to Didi, a three year old boy who is in Piaget’s preoperational stage. According to Didi’s mother, he is an active child and is the second child from a family of four. His ethnicity background is Caucasian (Mother) and Hispanic (Father) and he was born on March 24, 2005.The conservation experiment was conducted on October 25, 2008 at approximately one fifteen p.m. Prior to my arrival to the family’s home I explained my project to the parents of the child .The conservation study was conducted at the family’s home inside the child’s room. The people that were present during the time of the experiment were the mother, the child (Didi) and I.

My subject of target was Didi a, three year old boy that is currently in Piaget’s preoperational stage. His parents are my friends and they allowed me to perform Piaget’s Conservation Task. In order to conclude some results on how children perceive cognitively I performed three types of conservation task that of liquid, length, and number. To test the ability of the child's conservation I started by performing the conservation of liquid. I started off by showing Didi two same size cups with equal amounts of water. I asked “Can you look at these two glasses? Didi stared at the cups with open eyes and said “orange juice” as he sticked out his tongue. I proceeded by asking “Do you think they have the same amount of juice” Didi responded “same” I said “ok”. I then proceeded by pouring the small cup of juice in a more tall and...