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Becker, Joseph; Miller-Jones, Dalton – 1986
The reasoning of adolescents in indeterminate situations was examined with particular attention given to how individuals incorporate the possibility that outcomes are determined jointly by more than one variable. Kuhn and Brannock's (1977) plant problem and two other similarly structured problems were administered to 25 inner-city adolescents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Formal Operations