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Fuson, Karen – Elementary School Journal, 1976
This article (1) discusses the progression of children's thought from realism to objectivity, to reciprocity, and to realitivity; and (2) describes seventeen types of explanations children give to explain the causality of physical occurrences in the world. (SB)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages