HOW EARLY CAN CHILDREN UNDERSTAND SOME FORM OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING

Authors
NIAZ M
Citation
M. Niaz, HOW EARLY CAN CHILDREN UNDERSTAND SOME FORM OF SCIENTIFIC REASONING, Perceptual and motor skills, 85(3), 1997, pp. 1272-1274
Citations number
12
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
85
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Part
2
Pages
1272 - 1274
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1997)85:3<1272:HECCUS>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Recent findings show that children as young as 6 years of age understa nd some form of hypothetico-deductive reasoning. Perhaps scientific re asoning is based on complex processes that require considerable cognit ive development before children can understand.