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Piaget Observation
Initially, it was difficult to find out the appropriate age group for the assigned lab experiment. Later on, I found the kids with appropriate ages. One kid was from pre-operational stage who was 3 years old and another was from concrete stage who was 7 years old. I asked them several question while experimenting the things.
Both kids were tested at different time period at different place but the questions which were supposed to ask them were the same. First of all, I asked a kid from Piaget’s concrete operational stage. The question was like; “What makes the clouds move?” A kid from concrete operation said that the clouds moves because the earth rotates. Similarly, when I asked the same question to a kid from a pre-operational stage, he

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