MORAL AND CONVENTIONAL RULES IN CHILDREN REASONING

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Maria da Graça B.B.
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: L. Harris, Paul
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/17089

A make-believe mode can help children to construct a selfcontainedworld within which they accept premises and conclusions thathave no counterpart in their everyday experience (Dias e Harris, 1988a,b, c; no prelo a e b). Thus, we asked if the construct of that make-believeworld would have the same effect in syllogistic problems that convene either moral or conventional rules. The results show that neither of thepopulations studied (Brazilian and English children from medium SESfamilies and Brazilian children from Orphanages) distinguish betweenmoral and conventional rules as found by Turiel (1983). The make-believemode helped the performance of children from medium SES familes.However, children from Orphanages Showed similar reasoning under thetwo types of context, as children did with known fact premises that agreedwith subject's experience (see Hawkins, Pea, Glick & Scribner, 1984;Dias e Harris, 1988a, b). For these children premises that contravenemoral or conventional rules to the two other populations, seems beaccepted as empirically true without need of the make-believe play.