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Peer reviewedTorney-Purta, Judith – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Two groups of adolescents and a group of Coast Guard officials were interviewed about hypothetical political problems. Solutions presented were arrayed along a continuum of expertise, according to the complexity of subjects' political schemata and skills used in problem representation. (BC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Apartheid, Cognitive Processes
