Developmental and individual differences in the tendency to favor analytic responses over
heuristic responses were examined in children of two different ages (10-and 11-year-olds
versus 13-year-olds), and of widely varying cognitive ability. Three tasks were examined that
all required analytic processing to override heuristic processing: inductive reasoning,
deductive reasoning under conditions of belief bias, and probabilistic reasoning. Significant
increases in analytic responding with development were observed on the first two tasks …