I had many different test subjects available to me over Labor Day weekend, so it was difficult to choose which one to use. The subject I chose was my 10 year old cousin Sarah. She has two older brothers and she attends the Renaissance Expedition Learn Outward Bound School in Castle Rock, Colorado, where she is in fourth grade. Testing took place at the kitchen table of our lake house. Sarah and I were the only ones inside that booth when I was doing the tests on her, so there were no distractions. When I told her I needed to do some testing on her, she was a little wary, but once I told her it was required for one of my classes, she was more than willing to participate. The first test we did was the interpretation of the stories. To do this, I told him the story of “The Tortoise and the Hare”. After the story was finished, I asked him what the story meant. Sarah's response to the story was that you think you are the best, but don't brag about it because you can be beaten at any time. Others don't like it when people think they are better than someone else and brag because at any moment they can be beaten. I think Sarah would be at the formal operational stage. I think it's because his response said nothing about the story I told him, it was all based on the moral of the story. The moral of this story can be applied to everything you do in your life. Classification was the next test I performed on Sarah. For this task, I gathered a magazine photo, marker, chalk, notebook paper, writing paper, thumbtack, straight pin, tape, and a paper bag. I place all these items in front of her and tell her to sort them. Afterwards I told her she looked at me and said what are you doing... in the middle of a paper... completing this task. I think this because she had a pattern in mind and wasn't just rearranging the numbers in random order. She had a method for making sure she got all the three-digit numbers possible from the numbers she was given. By doing all of this testing, it showed me different ways that people will think about different ways of doing things. things. Sarah would be at the formal stage of operations, according to Piaget. I would say this because in all the tests I performed on it, the results were at the formal operational stage. I was a little surprised that it was at the formal stage and not at the concrete operational stage. After thinking about it more, I determined that it made sense for her to be in the formal stage, especially given her age, she should be closer to the formal operational stage..