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Direct linkBulloch, Megan J.; Opfer, John E. – Developmental Science, 2009
Development of reasoning is often depicted as involving increasing use of relational similarities and decreasing use of perceptual similarities ("the perceptual-to-relational shift"). We argue that this shift is a special case of a broader developmental trend: increasing sensitivity to the predictive accuracy of different similarity types. To test…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Hypothesis Testing, Classification
