Piaget

This week in class we took a lot of notes and had a lot of discussions about childhood development. We learned about physical development and cognitive development. When we were learning about how young children cannot judge number and volume I thought of my little cousin. She has recently started to learn conservation of number and volume since she is almost 7 now but I remember in past years that she didn't yet know this concept. During Christmas and Thanksgiving we always have snack foods on the table before dinner or lunch is served. We typically have cheese with crackers, sausage, pickles, and olives. My little cousin loves pickles and this particular year we had both pickle spears and baby dill pickles. She asked for a pickle and instinctively grabbed a baby dill since those are what I typically eat but she demanded the other kind because the size was bigger. I could have given her 100 baby dills and she still would have wanted a pickle spear because her mind told her that a pickle spear would give her more pickle than a 100 small ones. Now that she is 7, she can determine that a tall, skinny glass and a short, fat glass can have the same liquid even though it appears that the tall, skinny glass has more.