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McCormack, Teresa; Frosch, Caren; Patrick, Fiona; Lagnado, David – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Three experiments examined children's and adults' abilities to use statistical and temporal information to distinguish between common cause and causal chain structures. In Experiment 1, participants were provided with conditional probability information and/or temporal information and asked to infer the causal structure of a 3-variable mechanical…
Descriptors: Probability, Age Differences, Children, Intervention
Phillips, Gary W.; Grodsky, Milton – 1985
The decision making processes of children in a probabilistic environment were studied within the context of the theory of signal detection (TSD). The relationship between the age of the child and his ability to revise decision criteria was examined, as well as the appropriateness of TSD measures and methodology with children. It was hypothesized…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bayesian Statistics, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement