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Samuel & Bryant Quiz

Question 1 of 18

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What is the aim of Samuel and Bryant's study?

Select one of the following:

  • They aimed to show that children under the age of 7 could conserve and that it was the way the questions were asked that led to different answers in Piaglets original test.

  • The aimed to show that children under the age of 5 could conserve and it was the way that the experimenter dealt with the child that affected the answer.

  • They aimed to show that children under the age of 7 could not conserve unless questions were asked in a certain way. This was to back up Piaglets original test which showed children could not conserve.

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Question 2 of 18

1

There were 252 boys and girls in the study?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 3 of 18

1

How old were the children in Samuel & Bryant's study?

Select one of the following:

  • 2- 3 years old

  • 4- 6.5 years

  • 5- 8.5 years

  • 6- 9.5 years

Explanation

Question 4 of 18

1

What was the most likely sampling technique used?

Select one of the following:

  • Opportunity Sampling

  • Random Sampling

  • Self-Selected Sampling

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Question 5 of 18

1

The children were dived into four groups of 63. What were they arranged by?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Intelligence

  • Age group

  • Aggression

  • Gender (2 groups of each)

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Question 6 of 18

1

The groups were subdivided into 3 groups of 21 participants

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 7 of 18

1

Where were the participants from?

Select one of the following:

  • Crediton in Devon UK

  • Leeds in the UK

  • Stanford in the USA

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Question 8 of 18

1

Each group of 21 participants participated in either the standard, one-judgement or fixed array condition.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 9 of 18

1

What was the standard condition?

Select one of the following:

  • Asking the question to the child once after the transformation.

  • Asking the child the question before and after the transformation like Piaglet did.

  • It was a condition every participant did as a standard control.

Explanation

Question 10 of 18

1

What were the three in dependant variables?

Select one of the following:

  • Age, type of question and type of task.

  • Age, type of question and personality type

  • Personality type, type of question and type of task

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Question 11 of 18

1

The average age of 5 years and 3 months performed best?

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 12 of 18

1

Which experimental condition did the participants do worst in?

Select one of the following:

  • Standard

  • One-judgement

  • Fixed Array

Explanation

Question 13 of 18

1

Children did best in the one-judgement question.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 14 of 18

1

Piaglet was right to suggest children's understanding gets takes place over time and they get better at conservation as they get older.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 15 of 18

1

Mass is conserved better then number or volume.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 16 of 18

1

They used counterbalancing to prevent order effects when changing the type of task (eg. Number, mass and volume) systematically.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 18

1

What was the dependant variable?

Select one of the following:

  • Number of errors made by children in conservation tasks.

  • The type of task that the child did best in.

  • Comments made by the children when taking part.

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Question 18 of 18

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What were the other controls?

Select one of the following:

  • The environment the children that the children carried out the tests in and the fact they were tested alone. In addition the researcher used the same materials for each child when carrying out the mass or volume tasks.

  • The children had to stay silent during the tasks until they were asked the question to keep their concentration in the task.

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