Regular ArticleHierarchical Complexity of Tasks Shows the Existence of Developmental Stages☆,☆☆
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Portions of this paper were presented at theSociety for Research in Child Development,April 1987; theThird Beyond Formal Operations Symposium held at Harvard: Positive Development During Adolescence and Adulthood,June, 1987; and the 17th Annual Convention for theAssociation of Behavior Analysis,May, 1991. R. Duncan Luce and Katherine Estes commented on an earlier presentation version and suggested a proof for a theorem. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Rebecca Young, Patrice M. Miller, Kwang Sung Pak, and Linda M. Bresette in editing versions of the manuscript. Many of the comments of the reviewer Robert Campbell have been incorporated into the manuscript.
Address reprint requests to Michael L. Commons, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Road, Boston, MA 02115-6196.
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