The Logical Reasoning of Deaf Subjects Who Use Sign or Oral Language
Keywords:
Deafness, Logical reasoning, Oral/sign languageAbstract
The aim of this study was to compare the ability of deaf and normal subjects from 14 to 20 years of age in
solving syllogistic problems with known, unknown and contrary fact contents. Premises were presented to half of the subjects
of each group within a context of make-believe play or in an ordinary verbal mode. For each group of subjects the problems
were presented in its linguistic variety: Brazilian sign language and Portuguese oral language. All responses were coded in two
ways: for response correctness and for the type of justification given for the response. The results showed that deaf subjects
(sign language and oral language users) as well as normal subjects could solve the problems adopting a theoretical attitude even
when the verbal mode was used and the contents were unknown or contrary to their empirical experiences.
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25,305-314.
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d'enfants sourds. Bulletin de Psychologic, 27, 262-275.
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Há progresso? Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 39, 29-40.
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Filosofia, University of Oxford, Oxford, Inglaterra.
Dias, M.G. (1992). Até quando preciso usar a imaginação? Psicologia:
Teoria e Pesquisa, 8, 351-361.
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on dedutive reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology,
6, 207-221.
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influência no raciocínio dedutivo. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa,
4, 55-68.
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on reasoning by young children. British Journal of Developmental
Psychology, 8, 305-318.
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Rio de Janeiro: Agir.
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tirées des sourdes adultcs. Bulletin de Psychologic, 19, 673-
679.
Furth, H.G. (1966b). Thinking without language. New York: The
Press.
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laugh don't like mushroms": Evidence for dedutive reasoning
by preescholers. Developmental Psychology, 20, 584-594.
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Psychology, 13,342-353.
Levine, E. (1960). The psychology of deafness. New York; Columbia
University Press.
Lisi, R. De. (1982). Children's thought and language. Journal of
Medicine, 3, 1383-1386.
Meadow, K.P. (1980). Deafness and child development. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Mores, D.F. (1970). Psycholinguisties and deafness. American
Annals of the Deaf, 115,37-38.
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of inferencial validity. Child Development, 57, 153- 165.
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necessity. Human Development, 25,309-323.
Mottez, B. (1981). Os surdos como uma minoria lingüística. Reabilitação,
1, 22-27. [Secretaria Nacional de Reabilitação, Potugal].
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Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 69 (6), 13-22.
Oléron, P. (1972). Langage el development mental. Bruxclles:
Dessart.
Pais, L. (1988). II Encontro de pais e professores de surdos. Grupo
de Estudos sobre Linguagem, Educação e Surdez, 3, 51-56.
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Piaget, J. (1974). A tomada da consciência, São Paulo: EDUSP.
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Aspects of logical and linguistic development. Journal of Psycholinguistic
Research, 14, 19-43.
Schlesinger, H.S. (1969). Beyond the range of sound. California
Medicine, 110,213-217.
Scribner, S. (1975). Recall of classic sylogisms: A cross-cultural
investigation of errors in logical problems. Em R. Falmagne
(Org.), Reasoning representation and process in children and
adults (pp. 153-173). Hillsdale: Erlbaum.
Scribner, S. (1977). Modes of thinking and ways of speaking:
Culture and logic reconsidered. Em P.N. Johnson-Laird & P.C.
Wason (Orgs.), Thinking: Readings in cognitive sciences (pp.
483-500). New York: Carnbrige University Press.
Shapiro, B.J. & O'Brien, T.C. (1970). Logical thinking in children
aged six through thirteen. Child Development, 41, 823-829.
Simões, P.U. (1991). Raciocínio silogístico em crianças: a certeza
e a incerteza da conclusão. Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Recife.
Victy, L. (1987). Development and handicap. Oxford: Basil Brackwell.
Wildman, T.M. & Fletcher, HJ. (1977). Developmental increases
and decreases in solutions of conditional syllogism problems.
Developmental Psychology, 13, 630-636.
Zamorano, M.A.F. de. (1981). Um estudo sobre o papel da linguagem
oral através de provas piagetianas no pensamento da
criança surda. Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade de São
Paulo, São Paulo.
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