Children search for information as efficiently as adults, but seek additional confirmatory evidence

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2039-2044

  Ruggeri, Azzurra ^a,b   Lombrozo, Tania ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^a   Xu, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

20 questions game; active learning; cognitive development; information search

Indexed keywords

20-QUESTION GAME; ACTIVE LEARNING; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; FORMAL ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS SPACE; INFORMATION SEARCH; LEARN+; PROPERTY; SEARCH EFFICIENCY; SEARCHING FOR INFORMATIONS;

EID: 85139530708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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