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Pillow, Bradford H.; Pearson, RaeAnne M.; Hecht, Mary; Bremer, Amanda – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2010
Children and adults rated their own certainty following inductive inferences, deductive inferences, and guesses. Beginning in kindergarten, participants rated deductions as more certain than weak inductions or guesses. Deductions were rated as more certain than strong inductions beginning in Grade 3, and fourth-grade children and adults…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Logical Thinking, Inferences
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Mages, Wendy K. – Research in Drama Education, 2006
This article proposes a cognitive theory of how drama affects two aspects of language development: narrative comprehension and narrative production. It is a theoretical model that explicitly posits the role of the imagination in drama's potential to enhance the development of both narrative comprehension and narrative production. (Contains 2…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension, Imagination