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Peer reviewedSternberg, Robert J.; Downing, Cathryn J. – Child Development, 1982
Investigates the hypothesis that strategy development might occur within or beyond the period of formal operations, but that this development might be discernible only beyond the second order of analogical relations. Adolescent strategy development in the solution of third-order analogies resembled in pattern the preadolescent development found in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Analogy, College Students, Difficulty Level
Sternberg, Robert J. – 1978
The unified theory described in this paper characterizes human reasoning as an information processing system with a hierarchical sequence of components and subtheories that account for performance on successively narrower tasks. Both deductive and inductive theories are subsumed in the unified componential theory, including transitive chain theory…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Critical Thinking, Deduction
