In order to find out what children of various ages thought about telling the truth, cheating, stealing and similar bad behaviour, Piaget developed the story-telling technique. This technique investigates whether children are aware of the consequences of an action. This is the technique I am going to use.

For example, in the first of two stories that Piaget came up with, a little boy stole a loaf of bread to give to his friend who was very poor and starving. In a second story a little boy fancied a cake so stole one from a shop.

In the first story, the dishonest act was committed for a good reason and in th second it was committed for a selfish reason. However, a loaf of bread is larger than one cake, and pre-operational children judge by appearances. Being egocentric they can’t understand intentions either. Many claimed t

I have chosen this technique because the children will be interested and hopefully listen carefully. This could enable more thought out answers. The hypothesis is logical and it was developed from reading Piaget’s work carefully and repetitively.

Age 7 to 11 - Concrete Operational - Children can decentre; they acquire the concept of conversion; but they cannot reason abstractly or test hypothesis systematically. Begin to form views and opinions about situations.

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