Causal Relations and Feature Similarity in Children's Inductive Reasoning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 470-484

  Hayes, Brett K ^a   Thompson, Susan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Department of Psychology

Author keywords

causal knowledge; conceptual development; induction models; inductive reasoning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34548816716     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.3.470     Document Type: Article

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