Occam's rattle: Children's use of simplicity and probability to constrain inference

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1156-1164

  Bonawitz, Elizabeth Baraff ^a   Lombrozo, Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Explanation; Inference to the best explanation; Parsimony; Simplicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871808723     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026471     Document Type: Article

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