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.
Question 2
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There were 252 boys and girls in the study?
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True
False
Question 3
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How old were the children in Samuel & Bryant's study?
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2- 3 years old
4- 6.5 years
5- 8.5 years
6- 9.5 years
Question 4
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What was the most likely sampling technique used?
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Opportunity Sampling
Random Sampling
Self-Selected Sampling
Question 5
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The children were dived into four groups of 63. What were they arranged by?
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Intelligence
Age group
Aggression
Gender (2 groups of each)
Question 6
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The groups were subdivided into 3 groups of 21 participants
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True
False
Question 7
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Where were the participants from?
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Crediton in Devon UK
Leeds in the UK
Stanford in the USA
Question 8
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Each group of 21 participants participated in either the standard, one-judgement or fixed array condition.
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True
False
Question 9
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What was the standard condition?
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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.
Question 10
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What were the three in dependant variables?
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Age, type of question and type of task.
Age, type of question and personality type
Personality type, type of question and type of task
Question 11
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The average age of 5 years and 3 months performed best?
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True
False
Question 12
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Which experimental condition did the participants do worst in?
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Standard
One-judgement
Fixed Array
Question 13
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Children did best in the one-judgement question.
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True
False
Question 14
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Piaglet was right to suggest children's understanding gets takes place over time and they get better at conservation as they get older.
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True
False
Question 15
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Mass is conserved better then number or volume.
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True
False
Question 16
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They used counterbalancing to prevent order effects when changing the type of task (eg. Number, mass and volume) systematically.
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True
False
Question 17
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What was the dependant variable?
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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.
Question 18
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What were the other controls?
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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.