3.1.3.2.4 McGarrigle and Donaldson's naughty teddy study Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. What did McGarrigle and Donaldson find increased conservation responses in young children?

   • Accidental transformations
   • Adult demonstrations
   • Deliberate changes
   • Abstract instructions

2. What was the independent variable in McGarrigle and Donaldson's naughty teddy study?

   • Gender of experimenter
   • Age of participants
   • Number of counters
   • Type of transformation

3. How did McGarrigle and Donaldson's study challenge Piaget's theory of conservation?

   • Children conserved earlier
   • Conservation never develops
   • Piaget overestimated children
   • Children conserved later

4. What did most young children conclude about the counter total after the teddy moved them?

   • It doubled
   • It increased
   • It decreased
   • It stayed same

5. What key feature was used in McGarrigle and Donaldson's naughty teddy study?

   • Abstract reasoning
   • Accidental transformation
   • Deliberate transformation
   • Controlled observation

6. What is a major criticism of McGarrigle and Donaldson's naughty teddy study?

   • Task lacked structure
   • No control group
   • Teddy distracted children
   • Sample was old

7. What does the naughty teddy study suggest about children's cognitive abilities in testing?

   • Context changes nothing
   • Context improves performance
   • Context hinders reasoning
   • Abstract tests work

8. Which action in a conservation task makes a child least likely to conserve number?

   • Playful puppet movement
   • Deliberate adult change
   • Unintentional spill
   • Accidental teddy change

9. In Piaget's conservation tasks, what do children rely on if they fail to conserve?

   • Logical reasoning
   • Reversible operations
   • Decentred thinking
   • Visual appearance

10. What did McGarrigle and Donaldson conclude about conservation in pre-operational children?

    • Children never conserve
    • Context affects ability
    • Age determines ability
    • Ability is fixed

11. What two types of transformation were compared in the naughty teddy study?

    • Visual and auditory
    • Verbal and non-verbal
    • Reversible and irreversible
    • Accidental and deliberate

12. In conservation studies, how do children usually respond if a transformation seems deliberate?

    • All conserve
    • No change occurs
    • More conserve
    • Fewer conserve

13. What was the age range of the children tested in the naughty teddy study?

    • One to three
    • Eight to ten
    • Eleven to thirteen
    • Four to six

14. Why did McGarrigle and Donaldson's results challenge Piaget's theory of cognitive development?

    • Fixed stage ages
    • Later conservation shown
    • Egocentrism increased
    • Earlier conservation shown

15. Why might children answer incorrectly when an adult deliberately rearranges a row of counters?

    • They lose focus
    • They suspect trickery
    • They lack vision
    • They cannot count

16. What primary factor did the naughty teddy study show influences children's conservation performance?

    • Reward type
    • Child gender
    • Task presentation
    • Time of day

17. How was conservation measured in McGarrigle and Donaldson's naughty teddy study?

    • Eye movements tracked
    • Heart rate recorded
    • Verbal judgment given
    • Time to respond

18. What feature made the naughty teddy study different from Piaget's standard conservation task?

    • Multiple experimenters
    • Fixed rewards
    • Accidental context
    • Computerised testing

19. What percentage of children conserved number during the accidental teddy condition?

    • 16 percent
    • 35 percent
    • 90 percent
    • 62 percent

20. Which pre-operational characteristic causes a child to judge quantity purely by visual appearance?

    • Egocentrism
    • Decentration
    • Object permanence
    • Centration

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