Different developmental patterns of simple deductive and probabilistic inferential reasoning

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1066-1078

  Markovits, Henry ^a   Thompson, Valerie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 54949104349     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.6.1066     Document Type: Article

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