Piaget's Three Mountains Task

• Piaget's Three Mountains task (1956)

  Aim- To study egocentrism in children.

  Total of 100 children involved, the majority (33) aged 8-9.5

  Younger children showed more egocentrism, children up to seven were egocentric.
• Piaget's Three Mountains task strengths

  • Great detail and results
  • Gave qualitative data
• Piaget's Three Mountains task weaknesses

  • Didn't give the same results as others
  • Not as different as the term stage suggests.