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Peer reviewedHalford, Graeme S.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Reports the use of a memory load-interference paradigm and the easy-to-hard paradigm as converging operations to study capacity limitations in five- to six-year-old's reasoning. Concludes that transitive inference ability in children is capacity limited. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes
