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TRAINING IN LOGICAL THINKING AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE GROUPING STRATEGIES OF EIGHT‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Burke Elizabeth
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1974.tb01254.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , test (biology) , equivalence (formal languages) , significant difference , logical reasoning , cognitive psychology , mathematics education , statistics , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , biology
SUMMARY An investigation into the effects of training in symbolic logic on the grouping strategies of 8‐yr‐old children is reported, Bruner's tests of equivalence (verbal and non‐verbal) being used as criteria. Generally the training was found to be beneficial for the boys, but not for the girls, the training x sex interaction being significant for performance in the verbal test. Again, for both tests, more of the experimental group displayed above‐average groupings in the functional and nominal categories, the difference from the controls being statistically significant. The implications of these findings are discussed.