Conditional Reasoning with False Premises Facilitates the Transition between Familiar and Abstract Reasoning

Autor/inn/en	Markovits, Henry; Lortie-Forgues, Hugues
Titel	Conditional Reasoning with False Premises Facilitates the Transition between Familiar and Abstract Reasoning
Quelle	In: Child Development, 82 (2011) 2, S.646-660 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01526.x
Schlagwörter	Abstract Reasoning; Improvement; Early Adolescents; Young Adults; Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Qualitätssteigerung; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Child; Kind; Kinder
Abstract	Abstract reasoning is critical for science and mathematics, but is very difficult. In 3 studies, the hypothesis that alternatives generation required for conditional reasoning with false premises facilitates abstract reasoning is examined. Study 1 (n = 372) found that reasoning with false premises improved abstract reasoning in 12- to 15-year-olds. Study 2 (n = 366) found a positive effect of simply generating alternatives, but only in 19-year-olds. Study 3 (n = 92) found that 9- to 11-year-olds were able to respond logically with false premises, whereas no such ability was observed in 6- to 7-year-olds. Reasoning with false premises was found to improve reasoning with semiabstract premises in the older children. These results support the idea that alternatives generation with false premises facilitates abstract reasoning. (As Provided).
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