Psychological differences between the young and old

Even with many confounding variables present, the evidence gathered clearly shows that pre-school children are more defiant and disregard rules more frequently than that of kindergarten children. During our one-hour observation, equally divided between the two groups, we encountered several confounding variables that may have altered our results. However, they would have done so in favor of the pre-school children having a lesser number of defiant events compared to that of the kindergarteners. For example, there were a greater number of kindergarten children than per-schoolers, which consequently increases the chance for the kindergarten children having a greater number of defiant acts. In addition, the recess periods took place at two different times. The kindergarten children were on the playground during the second half of the hour, which is around the time where their day ends and the parents pick them up. This could cause more excitement among the kindergarten children in compar...