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Peer reviewedHuber, Beate L.; Huber, Oswald – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Investigates which formal principles govern subjective probability, and whether the validity of these principles depends on age. Results indicate that these principles are valid as principles of subjective probability for all age groups. (RWB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Ability
Marion, Sarah DeBoard; Touchette, Paul E.; Sandman, Curt A. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2003
This study with 45 institutionalized individuals with mental retardation and self injurious behavior (SIB) calculated conditional probability using sequential analysis techniques. It found that successive episodes of self-injury were sequentially dependent and this association was not related to frequency or rate of occurrence. The best predictor…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Disorders, Children, Incidence
Peer reviewedOffenbach, Stuart I.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Examines hypotheses and strategies used by children at the kindergarten, second-, fourth- and sixth-grade levels in making proportional judgements. The task involved 36 trials in which the child had to choose between two groups to obtain a target-color "chip." Results generally conformed to the developmental sequence proposed by Piaget…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Grade 2
