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Waismeyer, Anna S.; Jacobs, Lucia F. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
The development of spatial navigation in children depends not only on remembering which landmarks lead to a goal location but also on developing strategies to deal with changes in the environment or imperfections in memory. Using cue combination methods, the authors examined 3- and 4-year-old children's memory for different types of spatial cues…
Descriptors: Cues, Young Children, Memory, Experiments
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Holyoak, Keith J.; Lee, Hee Seung; Lu, Hongjing – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2010
A fundamental issue for theories of human induction is to specify constraints on potential inferences. For inferences based on shared category membership, an analogy, and/or a relational schema, it appears that the basic goal of induction is to make accurate and goal-relevant inferences that are sensitive to uncertainty. People can use source…
Descriptors: Inferences, Logical Thinking, Bayesian Statistics, Causal Models