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Download full textWeir, Morton W. – 1965
In a 1964 investigation of the effects of age and memory on problem solving, using subjects from age three to age nineteen, it was found that the youngest and oldest subjects performed a three-choice probabilistic task significantly different from the "middle-age" children (7 to 9 years old). The three-choice task was an apparatus with a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Learning
