The role of imagination in facilitating deductive reasoning in 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds.

By C. Richards, J. Sanderson. 1999

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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2. Melissa Koenig
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4. Paul L. Harris

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• Learning to Reason Deductively: Math Word Problem Solving as Complex Relation Extraction (2022, background): “Future directions that we would like to explore include how to effectively incorporate commonsense knowledge into the deductive reasoning process, and how to facilitate counterfactual reasoning (Richards and Sanderson, 1999).”
• Relating developments in children's counterfactual thinking and executive functions (2009, background): “Children gave the logically correct counterfactual answers from about 4 years of age (if not earlier, see Richards & Sanderson, 1999).”
• Trust in Testimony: Children's Use of True and False Statements (2004, background): “Does Tot live in a tree?’’ they typically deny that conclusion and justify that claim with reference to their own knowledge: ‘‘Because fish live in the water’’ (Dias & Harris, 1988, 1990; Leevers & Harris, 1999, 2000; Richards & Sanderson, 1999).”
• Rethinking the multiplicity of cognitive resources and curricular representations: Alternatives to 'learning styles' and 'multiple intelligences' (2003, background): “For additional examples of transmediation, see Denis (1982), Lewis (1989), Stenning et al. (1995), Vidal and Gilabert (1995), Antonietti (1999), Dobson (1999a), and Richards and Sanderson (1999).”
• Proof in School Mathematics: Insights from Psychological Research into Students' Ability for Deductive Reasoning (2008, background): “Some studies suggest that even preschoolers are capable of drawing logically necessary inferences (eg, Hawkins, Pea, Glick, & Scribner 1984 ; Richards & Sanderson, 1999 ).”