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Peer reviewedLohaus, Arnold; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Discusses variables related to task performance in the solution of the water-level problem, where subjects were asked to indicate the water surface orientation in a tilted vessel. Subjects ages 7 to 15 years participated. Suggests that field effects and the kind of rules in use contribute to the differences in performance, which can be shown even…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Context Effect
