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To appraise developmental difficulty or mental demand, relational complexity is not enough

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Juan Pascual-Leone
Juan Pascual-Leone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, [email protected]
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Abstract

Two assertions of Halford et al. are critiqued: their claim of priority in relational complexity analysis and the sufficiency for cognitive development of their relational-complexity analysis of tasks. Critical discussion of concrete task analyses (i.e., the relational complexity of proportionality problems, of balance scale problems, and the Tower of Hanoi) serves, by way of counterexamples, to highlight problems in their method.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 843 - 844
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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