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Matusov, Eugene L. – 1991
Piaget (1968) and Michotte (1963) studied children's perception of physical causality. While emphasizing perception, they deemphasized thinking. The present study extends research by these authors by identifying types of verbal thinking in preschoolers on the basis of judgment of three fundamental physical laws: the first law of static, the law of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Evaluative Thinking, Foreign Countries