1. Klaczynski, P.A. (2001) Analytic and Heuristic Processing Influences on Adolescent Reasoning and Decision-Making. Child Development
Proposes a two process model for adolescent reasoning- analytic and heuristic
Examines reasoning of early adolescents (~12 y.o.) and middle adolescents (~16 y.o.)
Uses several tasks including- conditional reasoning, contingency detection, statistical reasoning problems, conjunction problems, ‘gambler’s fallacy’ problems, outcome bias problems, and a hindsight bias problem.
Adult normative responses increase with age
Results correlated in two clusters, analytic and heuristic
Analytic and heuristic reasoning responses were generally not correlated
Analytic reasoning seems to change more with age than heuristic reasoning
Analytic reasoning is less broadly correlated for early adolescents than for late adolescents
Strengths:
Large number of tasks
Adolescents of different ages
Easily comparable to adult-normed data
Weaknesses:
Cross-sectional
No measurement of problem solving time(analytic problem solving takes longer)