Arnav shows his dominance by changing the tone of his voice, making it more challenging for Om to refute. Om is more of the beta animal. Om tests Arnav by arguing about toys and trying to seem more dominant by teaching Arnav how to play with his toys. Arnav knows that Om makes some of the decisions but Arnav has a greater influence over Om.
Observation 2.
I started Observation 2 by first conducting the M&M experiment. Om did not seem to get confused at the number of M&Ms; we both had even though mine were more spread out than his. This result demonstrated that Om is able to reason logically that he and I have the same number of M&Ms; even though my M&Ms; are spread out. Om's age falls within Piaget's preoperational stage, but as stated in this stage, children usually lack logical reasoning (Myer 144). Om's ability to understand the seemingly transformation between my M&Ms; doesn't change the amount of M&Ms; I have and places him within the concrete operational stage of Piaget because he is able to exhibit logical reasoning (Myer 144). .
Next we moved on to the "Store" game. Once he had all of the M&Ms; and I had all the pennies, I asked him how many M&Ms; he had. He replied, "Five of them!" I then asked him how many pennies he had. At first he seemed confused, and then said, "I don't have any! You took all of them!" To relate this to the preoperational stage, it is clear that Om hasn't grasped the concept of logical thinking a hundred percent (Myer 144). However, this can also show that Om is egocentric; a common characteristic of this stage (Myer 146). Egocentrism in Piaget's theory is the inability of the preoperational child to take another's point of view (Myer 146).Om exhibits this because he is only able to think of the amount of M&M's in his hand but is unable to realize that I has the same number of pennies since she gave him one M&M for each penny (Myer 146).
