COGNITIVE MECHANISMS OF REASONING IN TEENAGERS - THE CONTRIBUTION OF CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL FACTORS

The authors put forward two suppositions: 1) The special training to f orm metacomponents of deductive reasoning could improve results of int ellectual problem solving demanding deductive reasoning; 2) Representa tion of the metacomponents acquired while subjects solved problems in one domain could be applied to problem solving in other domains. 490 t eenagers from England and Russia took part in the study. The whole sam ple was divided into two groups: younger and older ones. The subjects produced the algebraic and verbal logical reasonings. Results confirme d the suppositions.