Before I ran the test with the children I played some games with them, strictly for research of course. I was at the park with Sophia and two other boys who I watching. Sophia is age three, my preoperational and the other boys we six and seven. Talking with all of the children at once showed me just how great Sophia’s language was. When I asked them all questions, Sophia formed sentences just as well as the six and seven-year-old boys. As far as imaginative play goes, she pretended she was first on an airplane and then was the airplane. At first, I thought this was really creative, I didn’t prompt her and neither did either of the boys. Then I look down and in her hand is a paper airplane she was playing with before I saw her. So the imaginative play is pretty on track for where …show more content…
Then you pour on into a cup that will make it look like one of the cups has more or less liquid. When Sophia was presented with this task she carefully examined both cups, it took her a hot minute but she said they were the same. I then transferred the liquid and as expected of her, she said hers had more liquid. With Dom, he actually said I had more liquid when they were the same. He spent more time than Sophia spent examining and if there was any slight difference in liquid, he got it. Then when I poured it into the other glass he said what a preoperational child would