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ERIC Number: EJ337939
Record Type: CIJE
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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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Physical Laws; Rule Learning; Rules and Regulations