1st Edition
The Developmental Psychology of Reasoning and Decision-Making
1. Introduction. PART 1 Overview and Theory. 2. Maggie E. Toplak, Richard F. West and Keith E. Stanovich, Assessing the Development of Rationality. 3. Rebecca B. Weldon, Jonathan C. Corbin, and Valerie F. Reyna, Gist Processing in Judgment and Decision Making: Developmental Reversals Predicted by Fuzzy-Trace Theory. 4. Caroline Gauffroy and Pierre Barrouillet, A developmental mental model theory of conditional reasoning. 5. Paul A. Klaczynski and Wejdan S. Felmban , Developmental Reversals in Heuristics and Biases during Adolescence: An Individual Difference Approach. PART 2 Development of specific competencies. 6. David Moshman, Epistemic Domains of Reasoning. 7. Wim De Neys, Heuristics, Biases, and the Development of Conflict Detection during Reasoning. 8. Henry Markovits, How to Develop a Logical Reasoner: A Hierarchical Model of the role of divergent thinking in the development of Conditional Reasoning. 9. Sarah R Beck and Kevin J Riggs, The development of counterfactual reasoning.
Biography
Henry Markovits is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Université du Quebec à Montréal, Canada. He has been studying children’s reasoning for many years and has published over 90 articles and chapters on various facets of reasoning. He has been associate editor of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, and is currently associate editor of the journal Thinking & Reasoning.
