... unless laws recognize the age of majority earlier". (Uncrc). Scientific approach If you pick up a textbook on childhood, you we usually find the names Piaget and Kohlberg. Piaget is especially well know to most for his theory of "cognitive development" (2)Piaget developed a theory from watching boy's playing with marbles. First he noted that younger boys were playing by no particular rules, they just enjoyed playing with the marbles. He notice how boys as they got older started playing by the rules and then started to make there own. He used this to test how their thinking developed, by using the "the conservation of liquids task" (pg 13). Two breakers where filled with the same amount of water and another slimmer, taller, empty breaker was placed on the table in front of the child. The children were then asked if they tipped the water into the slimmer one would ...

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