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Description
Flashcards by Georgia Bishop, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Georgia Bishop
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Aim | To investigate whether younger children have a better grasp of conservation if they are asked one quetsion instead of two. |
| How many participants | 252 (boys and girls) aged between 5 and 8 1/2 opportunity sample from Devon |
| The groups | age groups: 5yr3m, 6yr3m, 7yr3m, 8yr3m |
| What was the Independent Varible | The condition (questions asked) Age of participants |
| what was the dependent varible | Errors made Age - success on conservation tasks |
| The questions: | Standard: before and post transformation One Judgement: post transformation Fixed Array: no transformation seen |
| How were the groups divided? | The four age groups were further divided into 3 groups for the 3 different questions |
| The tests: | Each child tested 4 times on the 3 materials (12 tests in total) Mass - play dough number - row of counters volume - water |
| Findings: condition differences | Children mad fewer errors on one judgement (4) than standard (5) most errors made on fixed array (6) |
| Conclusion: condition differences | children used information from pre-transformation to answer the finial question |
| Findings: Age | younger made more errors under 5 (8.1) - 8 yearolds (2.1) (6yo,5.5 - 7yo,3.6) |
| Findings: Materials | Fewer errors number task (4.0) Most on volume task (5.9) |
| Why the children found One Judgment easier | Because they were asked the same question twice they may have thought they got it wrong the first time - due to demand characteristics they changed their answer. |
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