Exercise 4 !

Humanities

please answer the 4 different questions separately

1.Piaget’s Conservation Experiments:

Please watch this brief video illustrating Piaget’s classic studies of conservation in the preoperational stage:

Conservation task

Give at least two reasons why Piaget says that young children cannot conserve.

2.Gender Identity:

Would you describe your own gender identity as “feminine”, “masculine”, or “androgynous”? What biological and social factors might have influenced your gender identity?

3.Storm and Stress:

Was your adolescence a period of storm and stress or was it relatively peaceful? Why do you suppose some teenagers move through adolescence with relative ease, whereas others find it a difficult period?What made adolescence easy or difficult for you?

4.Cognitive Development:

The more years of higher education and life experience a person has, the deeper and more dialectical that person’s reasoning becomes. Give a specific example of how your thinking about an issue today is deeper than it was when you were younger, or before you started college.