piaget and inhelder (1956):three mountains task

What’s the aim of piaget and inhelder (1956) three mountain task

To investigate whether children under the age of seven can see the world from a different perspective

how many participants were used and what age range

100 participants age ranged from 4-8 years

Describe the procedure

-they had 3 paper mountains infront of them one with snow on top one with a house on top and one with a Red Cross on top

-each child was seated on one side of the table and a doll was placed at the other side

-the children were asked to pick which picture the doll sees

What were the results

-children below 7 had difficulty with this task

What was the conclusion

-children below age of 7 suffer from egocentrism

-children in concrete operational stage started to show understanding in perspectives

Strengths of piaget and inhelder

-major idea of egocentrism still stands today and has greatly influenced the way children are viewed as active learned

Weakness of piaget and inhelder

-Hughes (1982) stated that if the task make more ‘human sense’ to children then they could complete the task successfully