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A NOTE ON THE USE OF PEEL'S LOGICAL GAME FOR STUDYING CONDITIONAL REASONING IN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
WARD J.,
KNOWLES D.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1976.tb02331.x
Subject(s) - psychology , variety (cybernetics) , affect (linguistics) , logical analysis , matching (statistics) , logical reasoning , logical conjunction , cognitive psychology , social psychology , artificial intelligence , linguistics , communication , mathematics , statistics , computer science , mathematics education , mathematical statistics , philosophy
S ummary . Peel's logical game was used with six groups of elementary school children (N = 300). The method was used to study rules of implication and incompatibility. The implication rule mainly generated conjunctive or matching responses; the incompatibility rule evoked greater variety of response deriving from simple contrapositive strategies. Omission of the connective ‘if’ in a second experiment did not affect the pattern of responses. Overall there was little evidence of developmental trends in the data.