The relationship between physical and social reasoning in adolescents.
The relationship between physical reasoning and interpersonal reasoning was examined by devising group-administered written measures of interpersonal reasoning tasks (social guessing games) and giving these and standard physical reasoning tasks to 11-year-old children (N = 106). A factor analysis revealed two factors: Physical reasoning accounted for 42% of the variance, and social reasoning accounted for 17% of the variance. This supports the proposition that social reasoning is distinct from physical reasoning, but performance on all reasoning tasks may depend upon structures of both types.
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Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, England.
D000293:Adolescent; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011340:Problem Solving; D011581:Psychological Tests; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent