1Introduction – from Piaget to dual-process theories
The complexities of thinking and reasoning development
Thinking and reasoning are pivotal processes for Homo sapiens as the main mechanisms by which human beings achieve adaptation to their environment. Not surprisingly, these processes have attracted for a long time the interest of psychologists who designed a myriad of tasks and paradigms to assess human thinking capacities and elaborated a variety of theories accounting for induction, deduction, problem solving, judgment, and decision making. The crucial adaptive role of thinking and reasoning abilities for our species naturally raises the question of their origin and development. One of the most ...
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