Children's sequential information search is sensitive to environmental probabilities

Cognition

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 74-80

  Nelson, Jonathan D ^a   Divjak, Bojana ^b   Gudmundsdottir, Gudny ^a   Martignon, Laura F ^b   Meder, Björn ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b LUDWIGSBURG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Information gain; Information search; Optimal experimental design principles; Optimality; Twenty questions game

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTROSPECTION; INTUITION; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; KNOWLEDGE; PHYSIOLOGY; THINKING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PROBABILITY; THINKING; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84887013080     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.09.007     Document Type: Article

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