Developmental and content effects in reasoning with causal conditionals

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 235-248

  Barrouillet, Pierre ^a   Markovits, Henry ^b   Quinn, Stéphane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causality; Cognitive development; Conditional; Deductive reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0036512620     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.2001.2652     Document Type: Article

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