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Peer reviewedMarkovits, Henry; And Others – Child Development, 1996
A model of conditional reasoning predicted that children under 12 would respond correctly to questions of uncertain logical form if premises and context enabled them to access counterexamples from memory, and that children's performance with uncertain logical forms would decrease when empirically true premises are presented in a fantasy context.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Context Effect, Fantasy
