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O'Grady, Shaun; Xu, Fei – Child Development, 2020
Two experiments were designed to investigate the developmental trajectory of children's probability approximation abilities. In Experiment 1, results revealed 6- and 7-year-old children's (N = 48) probability judgments improve with age and become more accurate as the distance between two ratios increases. Experiment 2 replicated these findings…
Descriptors: Child Development, Age Differences, Probability, Heuristics
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Yousif, Sami R.; Alexandrov, Emma; Bennette, Elizabeth; Aslin, Richard N.; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Science, 2022
A large and growing body of work has documented robust illusions of area perception in adults. To date, however, there has been surprisingly little in-depth investigation into children's area perception, despite the importance of this topic to the study of quantity perception more broadly (and to the many studies that have been devoted to studying…
Descriptors: Computation, Decision Making, Task Analysis, Heuristics
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Musculus, Lisa; Ruggeri, Azzurra; Raab, Markus; Lobinger, Babett – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Little is known about how children generate options for taking action in familiar situations or how they select which action option to actually perform. In this article, we explore the interplay between option generation and selection from a developmental perspective using sports as a testbed. In a longitudinal design with four measurement waves,…
Descriptors: Children, Early Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development
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Horn, Sebastian S.; Ruggeri, Azzurra; Pachur, Thorsten – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Judgments about objects in the world are often based on probabilistic information (or cues). A frugal judgment strategy that utilizes memory (i.e., the ability to discriminate between known and unknown objects) as a cue for inference is the recognition heuristic (RH). The usefulness of the RH depends on the structure of the environment,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Decision Making, Child Development, Adolescent Development
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Morsanyi, Kinga; Handley, Simon J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
We examined the relationship between cognitive capacity and heuristic responding on four types of reasoning and decision-making tasks. A total of 84 children, between 5 years 2 months and 11 years 7 months of age, participated in the study. There was a marked increase in heuristic responding with age that was related to increases in cognitive…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Memory, Young Children, Cognitive Ability