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1What is the aim of Samuel and Bryant's study?
- AThey 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.
- BThe 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.
- CThey 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.
2There were 252 boys and girls in the study?
- ATrue
- BFalse
3How old were the children in Samuel & Bryant's study?
- A2- 3 years old
- B4- 6.5 years
- C5- 8.5 years
- D6- 9.5 years
4What was the most likely sampling technique used?
- AOpportunity Sampling
- BRandom Sampling
- CSelf-Selected Sampling
5The children were dived into four groups of 63. What were they arranged by?
- AIntelligence
- BAge group
- CAggression
- DGender (2 groups of each)
6The groups were subdivided into 3 groups of 21 participants
- ATrue
- BFalse
7Where were the participants from?
- ACrediton in Devon UK
- BLeeds in the UK
- CStanford in the USA
8Each group of 21 participants participated in either the standard, one-judgement or fixed array condition.
- ATrue
- BFalse
9What was the standard condition?
- AAsking the question to the child once after the transformation.
- BAsking the child the question before and after the transformation like Piaglet did.
- CIt was a condition every participant did as a standard control.
10What were the three in dependant variables?
- AAge, type of question and type of task.
- BAge, type of question and personality type
- CPersonality type, type of question and type of task
11The average age of 5 years and 3 months performed best?
- ATrue
- BFalse
12Which experimental condition did the participants do worst in?
- AStandard
- BOne-judgement
- CFixed Array
13Children did best in the one-judgement question.
- ATrue
- BFalse
14Piaglet was right to suggest children's understanding gets takes place over time and they get better at conservation as they get older.
- ATrue
- BFalse
15Mass is conserved better then number or volume.
- ATrue
- BFalse
16They used counterbalancing to prevent order effects when changing the type of task (eg. Number, mass and volume) systematically.
- ATrue
- BFalse
17What was the dependant variable?
- ANumber of errors made by children in conservation tasks.
- BThe type of task that the child did best in.
- CComments made by the children when taking part.
18What were the other controls?
- AThe 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.
- BThe 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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