CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Three Mountain Task was developed by Jean Piaget and Bärbel Inhelder in the 1940s to study children’s ability to coordinate spatial perspectives. In the task, a child faced a display of three model mountains while a researcher placed a doll at different viewpoints of the display.

Detailed explanation-2: -a Piagetian task used to assess visual perspective taking in children. A doll is placed at various locations around a three-dimensional display of three mountains, and children must indicate how the doll sees the display.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Three Mountains Task Aim: Piaget and Inhelder (1956) wanted to find out at what age children decenter-i.e. become no longer egocentric. Method: A child is shown a display of three mountains; the tallest mountain is covered with snow.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Three Mountain Problem was devised by Piaget to test whether a child’s thinking was egocentric, which was also a helpful indicator of whether the child was in the preoperational stage or the concrete operational stage of cognitive development.

Detailed explanation-5: –The ‘three mountains’ task provided evidence for Piaget’s stages of development. It showed that children in the pre-operational stage were egocentric whereas those in the concrete operational stage could take a different view from their own and co-ordinate different viewpoints.