Problem-solving strategies as a function of age and socioeconomic level.
@article{Odom1967ProblemsolvingSA,
title={Problem-solving strategies as a function of age and socioeconomic level.},
author={Richard D. Odom},
journal={Child development},
year={1967},
volume={38 3},
pages={
747-52
},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:28270987}
}The results indicated that the age and socioeconomic background of S played significant roles in determining the kind of problem-solving strategy employed, and as age and societal level increased, strategies thought to reflect higher cognitive processes also increased.
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