How children use examples to make conditional predictions

Cognition

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  Kalish, Charles W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Inductive inference; Probability learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; AGING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 77952887515     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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