Children's use of sample size and diversity information within basic-level categories
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Children aged eight and nine years exhibit entrenched difficulty in using sample size and diversity information as a basis for inductive judgments within basic-level categories. The limited and inconsistent use of the monotonicity (sample size) and diversity information is due to the children's preference for other strategies such as premise-conclusion similarity and category membership. Children use the diversity and monotonicity information for judgments only when the other developmentally learned strategies are completely unavailable.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1997
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Developmental patterns in the understanding of social and physical transitivity
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Transitive inferences that use both a linear dimension and a nonlinear dimension are examined. Performance of 6-9 year old children who received two problems of each kind, showed similar developmental progressions, although nonsignificant correlations between the two tasks. The linear transitivity problems was further modified and children of seven, nine and 11 years of age were given problems needing judgements about friendship and nonfriends. There were no correlations between social judgments and judgments concerning length.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 1999
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Preschool children's use of trait lebels to make inductive inferences
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A sample of 100 children aged three and four years old were tested to assess their ability to make inferences using trait labeling when superficial resemblances contrasted with traits.
Publication Name: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0022-0965
Year: 2000
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