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A Case Study Of The Relationship Between Role-Taking Skills And Intellectual Development, Linda Suzanne Green
A Case Study Of The Relationship Between Role-Taking Skills And Intellectual Development, Linda Suzanne Green
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A series of thirteen role-taking and cognitive development tasks, taken from research done on Piaget's developmental theories, were presented to ascertain the relationship between refined role-taking skills and the level of intellectual development demonstrated by a child in Piaget's pre-operational phase (two to seven years).
The results indicated that a child in this age range is not able to remove himself from his egocentric position and utilize the concepts of decentering and reversibility in constructing a meaningful message. This would indicate a lack of role-taking skill refinement.
It was concluded that the use of this type of task series would …