Component Abilities of Children's Causal Reasoning.

Berzonsky, Michael D.

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Component Abilities of Children's Causal Reasoning

Berzonsky, Michael D.

Developmental Psychology, 11, 1, 111, Jan 75

Presents a study to determine, via scalogram analysis, whether there was a constant order in which children mastered six skills: understanding chance events, detecting incongruous causal relations, completing "because" statements, displaying a skeptical attitude, and explaining remote and familiar objects. Data were analyzed for 84 first-graders. (SDH)

Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students, Skill Analysis

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