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Navarro, Daniel J.; Dry, Matthew J.; Lee, Michael D. – Cognitive Science, 2012
Inductive generalization, where people go beyond the data provided, is a basic cognitive capability, and it underpins theoretical accounts of learning, categorization, and decision making. To complete the inductive leap needed for generalization, people must make a key "sampling" assumption about how the available data were generated.…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Generalization, Sampling, Learning
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Douven, Igor; Verbrugge, Sara – Cognitive Science, 2013
According to what is now commonly referred to as "the Equation" in the literature on indicative conditionals, the probability of any indicative conditional equals the probability of its consequent of the conditional given the antecedent of the conditional. Philosophers widely agree in their assessment that the triviality arguments of…
Descriptors: Probability, Semantics, Logical Thinking, Equations (Mathematics)
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Ambridge, Ben – Cognitive Science, 2013
A paradox at the heart of language acquisition research is that, to achieve adult-like competence, children must acquire the ability to generalize verbs into non-attested structures, while avoiding utterances that are deemed ungrammatical by native speakers. For example, children must learn that, to denote the reversal of an action,…
Descriptors: Generalization, Comparative Analysis, Verbs, Grammar