Children's Reasoning about Social, Physical, and Logical Regularities: A Look at Two Worlds.

Komatsu, Lloyd K.; Galotti, Kathleen M.

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Publication Date: 1986

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Children's Reasoning about Social, Physical, and Logical Regularities: A Look at Two Worlds.

Komatsu, Lloyd K.; Galotti, Kathleen M.

Child Development, v57 n2 p413-20 Apr 1986

Reports on two studies during which 6-, 8-, and 10-year-old children were interviewed about three different types of regularities or rules: social conventions, physical laws, and logical necessities. Shows that older children made more distinctions between social and nonsocial items than did younger children. (HOD)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Discrimination Learning, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Criteria, Logical Thinking, Social Behavior

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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