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Siegler, Robert S. – 1975
This paper questions evidence for the thesis that causal reasoning of older children is more logical than that of younger ones, and describes two experiments which attempted to determine (1) whether there are true developmental differences in causal reasoning, and (2) what explanations for developmental differences can be supported. In the first…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Cognitive Development, Developmental Tasks


