Enhancing adolescent girls' argument skills in reasoning about personal and non-personal decisions

Cognitive Development

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-352

  Udell, Wadiya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cognitive development; Decision making; Discourse; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249282731     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Anderson R., Nguyen-Jahiel K., McNurlen B., Archodidou A., Kim S., Reznitskaya A., et al. The snowball phenomenon: Spread of ways of talking and ways of thinking across groups of children. Cognition and Instruction 19 (2001) 1-46
2. Byrnes J. The nature and development of decision making: A self-regulation model (1998), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey
3. Byrnes J.P. The development of decision-making. Journal of Adolescence Health 31 (2002) 208-215
4. Chinn C., and Anderson R. The structure of discussions intended to promote reasoning. The Teachers College Record 100 (1998) 315-368
5. Felton M. The development of discourse strategies in adolescent argumentation. Cognitive Development 19 (2004) 35-52
6. Felton M., and Kuhn D. The development of argumentive discourse skills. Discourse Processes 32 (2001) 135-153
7. Furby L., and Beyth-Marom R. Risk taking in adolescence: A decision-making perspective. Developmental Review 12 (1992) 1-44
8. Hogarth R.M., and Kunreuther H. Decision making under ignorance: Arguing with yourself. In: Goldstein W.M., and Hogarth R.M. (Eds). Research on judgment and decision making: Currents, connections, and controversies (1997), Cambridge University Press, New York, NY 482-508
9. Janis J., and Klaczynski P. The development of judgment and decision making during childhood and adolescence. Current Directions in Psychological Science 11 (2002) 145-149
10. Kaufmann R., Spitz A., Strauss L., Morris L., Santelli J., Koonin L., et al. The decline in US teen pregnancy rates, 1990-1995. Pediatrics 102 (1998) 1141-1147
11. Klaczynski P. Bias in adolescents' everyday reasoning and its relationship with intellectual ability, personal theories, and self-serving motivation. Developmental Psychology 33 (1997) 273-283
12. Klaczynski P., and Gordon D. Self-serving influences on adolescents' evaluations of belief-relevant evidence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 62 (1996) 317-339
13. Kuhn D. Connecting scientific and informal reasoning. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 39 (1993) 74-103
14. Kuhn D., Amsel E., and O'Loughlin M. The development of scientific thinking skills (1988), Academic Press, Orlando, FL
15. Kuhn D., and Lao J. Contemplation and conceptual change: Integrating perspectives from social and cognitive psychology. Developmental Review 18 (1996) 125-154
16. Kuhn D., and Udell W. The development of argument skills. Child Development 74 (2003) 1245-1260
17. Kunda Z. Motivation and inference: Self-serving generation and evaluation of evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 53 (1987) 636-647
18. Martin J., Hamilton B., Sutton P., Ventura S., Menacker F., Munson M., et al. Births: Final data for 2003. National Vital Statistics Reports 54 (2005) 1-115
19. Martin J., Kochanek K., Strobino D., Guyer B., and MacDorman M. Annual summary of vital statistics - 2003. Pediatrics 115 (2005) 619-634
20. Montgomery H., and Svenson O. In: Montgomery H., and Svenson O. (Eds). Process and structure in human decision making (1989), Wiley, Chichester
21. Perret-Clermont A. Thinking spaces of the young. In: Perret-Clermont A., Pontecorvo C., Resnick L., Zittoun T., and Burge B. (Eds). Joining society: Social interaction and learning in adolescence and youth (2004), Cambridge University Press, New York, NY 3-10
22. Säljö R. From learning lessons to living knowledge: Instructional discourse and life experiences of youth in complex society. In: Perret-Clermont A., Pontecorvo C., Resnick L., Zittoun T., and Burge B. (Eds). Joining society: Social interaction and learning in adolescence and youth (2004), Cambridge University Press, New York, NY 177-191
23. Scott E.S., and Steinberg L. Blaming youth. Texas Law Review 81 (2003) 799-840
24. Shafir E., Simonson I., and Tversky A. Reason-based choice. Cognition 49 (1993) 11-36
25. Slovic P. Choice between equally valued alternatives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 13 (1975) 280-287
26. Troth A., and Peterson C.C. Factors predicting safe-sex talk and condom use in early sexual relationships. Health Communication 12 (2000) 195-218
27. Udell, W. (2004). Enhancing urban girls' argumentive reasoning about personal and non-personal decisions. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.
28. United Nations (2003). United Nations demographic yearbook. New York, NY: United Nations.
29. Walton D.N. Dialogue theory for critical thinking. Argumentation 3 (1989) 169-184