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Bountrogianni, Marie – 1985
To investigate similarity judgements in different cultural contexts, the performance of two groups of children on seven similarity tasks and on two tests of metaphor was compared. The 45 Canadian and 45 Canadian-Greek children (ages 5, 8, and 11) had different cultural and linguistic backgrounds but common schooling experiences. The seven tasks…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
