Broke Study (development) Flashcards

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Aim

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To rexamine Piaget’s mountain study to determine the validity of egocentrism in young children.

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Procedure

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  • Participants aged 3-4 years old and mostly white
  • Important: There were two copies of each display: one in front of Grover, one in front of the child. Story: Grover is driving by this scene and stops to take a look, can you show me what Grover sees?
  • Training: Child shown a firetruck, introduced to Grover sitting on a different part of the table. Child told to rotate their firetruck so they saw it the same way as Grover.
  • During training, mistakes were corrected
  • 1st mistake: researcher and child would get up, move to Grover, check out his POV
  • 2nd mistake: researcher moved the display to the correct position
  • Assessment portion of experiment:
  • Phase 1: simple scene with toys, Phase 2: Three mountain task, Phase 3: complicated scene with toys
    • Mistakes were not corrected in these phases
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Findings

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  • All subjects were highly accurate in their prediction of Grover’s POV on the two scenes containing toys
  • Children made significantly more errors in the prediction of Grover’s POV on the three mountain task
  • From errors made only ⅓ were egocentric, slightly over ⅔ were random
  • Provides critique for Piaget’s stages of development as most 3 to 4 year olds could accurately take the POV of Grover, suggests that the three mountain task was too difficult (lacked internal validity)
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Strengths

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  • n comparison with other experiments that used photos or models that the child had to make, the displays were easier for children to use (children find it hard to transition from a 2-D image to a 3-D display)
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Limitations

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  • Scaffolding was used, unlike Piaget
    • May have taught subjects how to do the task, not clear if they actually understand POV
  • Sampling bias: taken from an American university, mainly White children of students (¼ from surrounding neighborhood)
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Ethical Considerations

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  • Informed consent (parental consent)
  • Protection from harm
    • not criticized for mistakes
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Research Method

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Experiment

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