Logical reasoning and fantasy contexts: eliminating differences between children with and without experience in school

An experiment investigated the effect of a make-believe fantasy mode of problem presentation on reasoning about valid conditional syllogisms in three groups of 5-year-old children: a) school children from middle-class families in England; b) school children from middle-class families in Brazil; an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maria da Graça B. B. Dias, Antonio Roazzi, David P. O`Brien, Paul L. Harris
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Florida 2005-01-01
Series:Interamerican Journal of Psychology
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=28439103