... understanding cognitive development. This project is three of the many cognition tasks used to measure a child's development. There were a total of four children from the ages of forty-four months, to forty-eight months with the mean age of thirty-four months. This entire experiment shows that processing and knowledge cannot be understood independently of one another. "How a person of any age processes information is a function of the prior knowledge that a person possesses. Much like the relationship between structure and function, the relationship between processing and knowledge is bidirectional" (Children's thinking, Bjorklund). Task A In this experiment we used an empty, familiar Band-Aid box and put a yellow rubber ducky. Before we start the other experimenter goes out of the room and out of site from the child. We asked each child what they thought was inside. Every child naturally said "Band-Aids". We then opened the box and revealed ...

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