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Download full textAvery, Patricia Grant – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1988
This study focused on the development of policy thought, or abstract thinking about policy issues. Political thought may be described as concrete thinking about political phenomena. It includes one's knowledge of and attitude toward objects, people, and events in the political sphere. Policy thought entails the abstract manner in which one…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adolescents, Childhood Attitudes, Children
