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ERIC Number: EJ168322
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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The Development of Schemes for Recognizing Additive and Alternative Effects in a "Natural Experiment" Context
Kuhn, Deanna; Ho, Victoria
Developmental Psychology, 13, 5, 515-516, Sep 77
Presentation of a "natural experiment" problem situation to fourth, sixth, and eighth graders and college students revealed that not until adolescence could subjects isolate alternative or additive causes in a multivariable situation. (JMB)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Conceptual Schemes, Elementary School Students, Junior High School Students, Research
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Identifiers: Causal Relations