Children's complex thinking skills begin before going to school
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 19:00
in Psychology & Sociology
New research reveals that children begin to show signs of higher-level thinking skills as young as age 4 ½. Researchers have previously attributed higher-order thinking development to knowledge acquisition, but the new longitudinal study shows that other skills, not connected with knowledge, play a role in children’s ability to reason analytically.