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Download full textWillatts, Peter; Duff, Susan – 1989
This study examines the ability of 20 5- and 6-year-old children to determine whether an inference could reliably be made or whether a problem was undecidable. Children were given a random series of 8 decidable and 16 undecidable problems in which they had to determine in which of 2 houses a target character could be found. There were two…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Inferences
