The Development of Causal Reasoning about Phenomena of Shadow in Children

Abstract

This research aims to identify the significance of differences in the development of causal reasoning about the shadow phenomenon according to the variables of age (5, 8, 11) years, of (males, females). Its sample consisted of (180) children, both boys and girls, distributed equally according to age (5, 8, 11) years. The researchers prepared their research tool in light of the Mogar tool (Mogar, 1960) the tool consisted of a task, a picture, and questions. after the researchers translated the tool into Arabic, and verified the validity of its translation, in addition to verifying its face validity and reliability , by relying on the reliability of the corrector with himself, as the correction reliability coefficient reached (1), while the reliability coefficient of the corrector with another corrector was (0.801). Using the analysis of two-way variance, the results showed the existence of an effect of the age variable in the development of causal reasoning about the shadow phenomenon, and the absence of an effect of the sex variable in that. The researchers came up with a set of conclusions, recommendations, and proposals.