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Peer reviewedMitchell, P.; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Examined bias in reasoning in adults and in children, ages five through nine years, by presenting story or videotape true/false messages. Found that adults made judgments contaminated by their own background knowledge abut the believability of the message more frequently than did children. (ET)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Intellectual Development
Peer reviewedAvrahami, Judith; Kareev, Yaakov – Cognition, 1994
Three experiments using university students explored what constitutes an event and what determines its boundaries. Results supported the hypothesis that sequences of stimuli repeating in different contexts are cut out to become cognitive entities ("things" with a beginning and an end) in their own right. Results suggest that the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students
