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ETUDE INTERCULTURELLE DE LA GENERALISATION DES OPERATIONS: SIMILITUDE ET COHERENCE DES ACTIVITES DE CLASSIFICATION ET DE SERIATION CHEZ DES SUJETS CANADIENS‐FRANÇAIS, RWANDAIS SCOLARISES ET RWANDAIS NON SCOLARISES *
Author(s) -
Dagenais Yvon
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598008246992
Subject(s) - psychology , similitude , seriation (archaeology) , similarity (geometry) , humanities , artificial intelligence , philosophy , computer science , archaeology , image (mathematics) , history
Sixty‐two French‐Canadian children, seven to ten years old; 64 schooled Rwandese children, ten to thirteen years old; and 32 unschooled Rwandese subjects aged 15 and 17 were tested on four piagetian logico‐mathematical tasks: hierarchical classification (CA), multiple classification (CM), seriation of weight (RA) and double seriation (RM). Due to the effect of order, separate analyses were performed for tasks done during the same test session. When the results of tasks CA and RM, on the one hand, and of RA and CM, on the other hand, are combined, it is observed, firstly, that the items alternate in order of difficulty and, secondly, that the number of coherent patterns of responses exceeds the null hypothesis in French‐Canadian and schooled Rwandese populations, supporting the hypothesis of a complementary and partially synchronous modality of structuration of logical abilities. From another point of view, when the items from all four tasks are combined in a single scale of difficulty, the very close similarity observed between the ranks of the items in the three populations strengthens the hypothesis of a universally determined cognitive development based mainly on the equilibration process.