The Three Mountains Task

Who designed the three mountains task study?

• Bartlett

• Bandura

• Piaget

• Zimbardo

____________ was being tested in younger children.

• Centrism

• Ego

• Conformity

• Egocentric

According to Piaget, when does a child surpass egocentrism?

• 6

• 7

• 8

• 9

The aim was:

• Piaget and Inhelder (1956) wanted to find out at what age children decenter - i.e. become no longer egocentric.

• Piaget and Inhelder (1956) wanted to find out at what age children sleep - i.e. become no longer egocentric.

• Piaget and Inhelder (1956) wanted to find out at what age children believe in Santa - i.e. become no longer egocentric.

• Piaget and Inhelder (1956) wanted to find out at what age children like mountains - i.e. become no longer egocentric.

The children looked at 4 different mountain views followed by 10 pictures. If the child could pick out the view that the "doll" saw this meant...

• the child was not egocentric

• the child liked dolls

• the child conformed

• the child was fully developed

Four year-olds almost always chose a picture that represented what __________________.

• what the doll saw

• what their mother saw

• what they saw

• what Piaget saw.

Six year-olds frequently chose a picture different from their own view but rarely chose the correct picture _____________

• for their own view

• for the dolls view

• for the researchers view

• for the mothers view

At age 7, Piaget could conclude that.....

• Children still believed in Santa

• Had double vision

• was no longer egocentric and could see from the dolls view

• children were tough participants

True or False

Piaget's research "The Three Mountains Task" is enough to make the conclusion that children at age 7 are egocentric.

• True

• False