ABSTRACT
An increasing number of studies on the application of J. Piaget’s tasks to children from different cultural groups are being undertaken. The importance of these studies lies in the light they throw on developmental processes and the environmental factors affecting these processes. Forty Zulu children and forty white children were tested. Their ages ranged from 5 to 12 years, with equal numbers at each of these ages. The children were tested individually at the schools. Each child was tested in three separate sessions, each session lasting thirty to forty-five minutes. In the case of the Zulu children, an interpreter was used. The interpreter was a trained school teacher, and was instructed in the administration of the tests and required to translate any comments or questions the child made. The children’s responses were classified into five stages of development, corresponding as far as possible to the stages of development described by Piaget.
