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Download full textBrownlee, Don – 1985
A number of college students in forensic debate may be deterred from debating broad topics due to a lack of appropriate cognitive development and a perception of unacceptable certainty. These students have failed to develop formal thinking patterns because they lack reinforcing experiences in reasoning at that level. A sequenced pattern of…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Communication Problems
