Piaget's Developmental Stages

I asked the regular daycare teachers and volunteers if I could ask the children to do some simple developmental tasks, and they agreed. I told them that I would be asking the children to do some activities that involved muscular coordination, cognitive ability, and social interaction.

First I asked the boys and girls to write their names on three different sizes of white construction paper with a red crayon. The first size of paper was 5" X 8", the second size was 8" X 11", and the third size was 10" X 14". I used three different sizes of paper because I wanted to see if eye-hand coordination, dependent in part on musculoskeletal coordination, was easier for the children if they had a larger area on which to write. Regardless of the size of writing area, the two-year-old children grasped their crayons in tight little fists, while the older children (ages 3-5) wrote progressively more legible versions of their names. The two-year-olds seemed to be etching out a code, while the older children had some sense that they were signing their names. The size of the paper did make a difference with some of the older children

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ee-form, so to speak. The outside play area had sand boxes, a jungle gym, and several railroad ties, and grassy, shaded areas. Some of the older children tried to walk on the ties by carefully placing one foot in front of the other, trying not to fall off. As one might expect, the older children were much more adroit at staying on. I asked one of the two-year-olds if he could stay on the tie all the way across. He tried repeatedly, just to please me, but he kept falling off. Clearly, the younger children just did not have the musculoskeletal control to stay on the ties. The older kids seemed to take great pride in the fact that what was easy for them was virtually impossible for the younger ones. One little girl (age 2) went over to a grassy area, sat down, and started to pull out blades of grass, talking to herself, seemingly lost in her own world. This egocentrism is what one would expect from a child this young. She seemed to be conversing with the grass as if it could hear her talk. Eventually another three-year-old girl came over to sit with her. The new arrival started to pull out blades of grass as well. She put a blade of grass in her mouth, chewed on it for a moment, and started to laugh. The two girls star
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