Different developmental patterns of simple deductive and probabilistic inferential reasoning
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Different developmental patterns of simple deductive and probabilistic inferential reasoning.
In three studies, we examined simple counterexample-based and probabilistic reasoning in children 6, 7, and 9 years of age. In the first study, participants were asked to make conditional (if-then) inferences under both categorical (certain or uncertain) and probabilistic instructions. Results showed that 6-year-olds respond to both forms of inference in similar ways, but whereas probabilistic ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Memory & Cognition
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0090-502X,1532-5946
DOI: 10.3758/mc.36.6.1066