Sample diversity and premise typicality in inductive reasoning: Evidence for developmental change

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 543-556

  Rhodes, Marjorie ^a   Brickman, Daniel ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Diversity; Inductive reasoning; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 45649083706     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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