Samuel and Bryant

Question 1

How many participants are used and where are they from?

Answer 1

252 boys and girls from schools in devon

Question 2

What are the 3 IVs?

Answer 2

1- age
2- Sub condition
3-type of task

Question 3

what are the ages used?

Answer 3

5,6,7, 8 years and 3 months

Question 4

what is the DV?

Answer 4

number of errors made out of 12.

Question 5

what was the standard condition?

Answer 5

traditional piaget, (2 questions)
Which has more?
saw transformation
Which one now has more?

Question 6

What was the one judgment condition procedure?

Answer 6

saw material, pre transformation
p/s were then allowed to see it
Then they were asked which had more?

Question 7

what was the fixed array condition?

Answer 7

don’t see transformation

Then asked which has more?

Question 8

what was the mass task?

Answer 8

used material such a play dough or clay.

First had two equal piles, then one was rolled into a long shape.

Question 9

What was the numbers task?

Answer 9

Used counters

first had two equal lines, then one was spread out.

Question 10

what is the volume task?

Answer 10

Used liquid
first in two same sized beakers
then one in a measuring cylinder and one in normal beaker

Question 11

What are the research methods used?

Answer 11

Quasi-Age
sub-condition- Lab
types of task- Lab

Question 12

How many times were the types of task condition completed?

Answer 12

completed 4 times.

Question 13

which part of the study was an independent measures design?

Answer 13

age and sub conditions

Question 14

Which part was a repeated measures design?

Answer 14

type of task

Question 15

What was a finding related to age?

Answer 15

Older children did significantly better than younger children on all tasks.

Question 16

What is one findings related to condition e.g. one judgement

Answer 16

One judgment task was easier than standard piaget task and fixed array control.

Question 17

how does the age finding relate to Piaget?

Answer 17

Children appear to pass through cognitive development just like piaget suggested

Question 18

How does the condition finding relate to piaget?

Answer 18

Piaget study confused children.

Question 19

What was one finding of the type of task?

Answer 19

Children made fewest errors on the number task compared to the mass and volume tasks. volume more difficult.

Question 20

how does the type of task finding relate to piaget?

Answer 20

Like piaget, children could conserve number before they could conserve volume.

Question 21

What previous research was the stimulus for samual and Bryants study?

Answer 21

Piaget, originally he investigated that children passed though different cognitive stages of development.