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Meyer, Jerome S. – 1977
This paper reports on an investigation of children's ability to accept contrary-to-fact premises as though they were factual and to reason accordingly. A variety of questions requiring this skill were presented in semi-structured interview form to 10 to 12 subjects from each of six age groups ranging from 5 to 9 years, and to a control group of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
