Is everyday experience dysfunctional for the development of conditional reasoning?

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-275

  Cahan, Sorel ^a   Artman, Lavee ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031521347     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-2014(97)90016-2     Document Type: Article

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