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CN 11-1911/B

›› 1987, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (01): 36-42.

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COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDREN’S AWARENESS OF INTENTIONALITY IN MORAL JUDGMENTS

Cheng Yuanshan;Zhang Houcan Department of Psychology, Beijing Normal University   

  • Published:1987-03-25 Online:1987-03-25

Abstract: By using paired moral-judgment stories, 64 children, from five toeleven years of age are tested for investigating their cognitive developmentin intentionality. It is found that five-year-old children can use somefeatures of intentionality to make moral judgments, such as consideringthe subject's action as being accidental or intentional, or prompted bydifferent motivations. Seven, nine, and eleven-year-old children can usemore features such as voluntariness or involuntariness to make judgments.These are interpreted as the development of children cognitivenetwork usage of features of intentionality.

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