Content and context effects in children's and adults' conditional reasoning

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A: Human Experimental Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 839-854

  Barrouillet, Pierre ^a   Lecas, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; HUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0039484807     PISSN: 02724987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724980143000587     Document Type: Article

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