The naughty teddy

• Conservation

  The ability to understand that quantity remains the same, even when the appearance of an object alters
• How many kids were in the study?

  80
• Where were the children from?

  Edinburgh
• How old where the Holden in the nursery?

  4 years old
• How many children came from the nursery?

  40
• How old were the children from the primary school?

  5 years and 10 month
• How many children came from the primary school?

  40
• what were the children told that teddy may do?

  get out of his box, try and mess up the toys, and spoil the game
• what were the children shown?

  one row of four red counter and one row of four white counters
• what did Naughty Teddy do?

  he transformed the rows making one appear shorter
• Before and after the transformation, the children were asked a question. What was it?

  Is there more there, or more here, or are they the same?
• What percentage of the Holden gave the correct answer (conserved) whn an adult moved the counters deliberately?

  41%
• What percentage of the children could conserve if Naughty Teddy moved the counters accidentally?

  68%
• Who could conserve most in both conditions?

  The primary school students
• What does the study show about traditional methods of testing conservation?

  that the methods underestimating the age at which children could conserve
• Does the study support Piagets idea that children's cognition develops as they get older?

  Yes it does