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ERIC Number: EJ234791
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Sep
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Children's Conceptions of the Causes of Illness: Understanding of Contagion and Use of Immanent Justice.
Kister, Mary C.; Patterson, Charlotte J.
Child Development, v51 n3 p839-46 Sep 1980
Focuses on three major questions about children's understanding of the causes of illness: (1) developmental trends in understanding causes of illness; (2) children's use of the notion of immanent justice to explain illness and accident; and (3) the relationship between the extent of knowledge about the physical causes of illness and the use of immanent justice explanations. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Accidents, Age Differences, Children, Diseases, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten Children, Perception, Preschool Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Causality; Immanent Justice