Children's and adults' evaluation of their own inductive inferences, deductive inferences, and guesses

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-156

  Pillow, Bradford H ^a   Pearson, RaeAnne M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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