PMID- 24439115
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20141208
LR  - 20140421
IS  - 1096-0457 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-0965 (Linking)
VI  - 123
DP  - 2014 Jul
TI  - Three-year-olds obey the sample size principle of induction: the influence of 
      evidence presentation and sample size disparity on young children's 
      generalizations.
PG  - 147-54
LID - S0022-0965(13)00267-1 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.12.004 [doi]
AB  - Three experiments with 81 3-year-olds (M=3.62years) examined the conditions that 
      enable young children to use the sample size principle (SSP) of induction-the 
      inductive rule that facilitates generalizations from large rather than small 
      samples of evidence. In Experiment 1, children exhibited the SSP when exemplars 
      were presented sequentially but not when exemplars were presented simultaneously. 
      Results from Experiment 3 suggest that the advantage of sequential presentation 
      is not due to the additional time to process the available input from the two 
      samples but instead may be linked to better memory for specific individuals in 
      the large sample. In addition, findings from Experiments 1 and 2 suggest that 
      adherence to the SSP is mediated by the disparity between presented samples. 
      Overall, these results reveal that the SSP appears early in development and is 
      guided by basic cognitive processes triggered during the acquisition of input.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Lawson, Chris A
AU  - Lawson CA
AD  - Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 
      Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. Electronic address: lawson2@uwm.edu.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20140117
PL  - United States
TA  - J Exp Child Psychol
JT  - Journal of experimental child psychology
JID - 2985128R
SB  - IM
MH  - Attention
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Concept Formation
MH  - Discrimination Learning
MH  - Female
MH  - *Generalization, Stimulus
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Recall
MH  - *Pattern Recognition, Visual
MH  - Problem Solving
MH  - *Sample Size
MH  - Serial Learning
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Generalization
OT  - Induction
OT  - Ratio difference
OT  - Sample size
OT  - Sequential presentation
OT  - Simultaneous presentation
EDAT- 2014/01/21 06:00
MHDA- 2014/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2014/01/21 06:00
PHST- 2013/08/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/12/05 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2013/12/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/01/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/01/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/12/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0022-0965(13)00267-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.12.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Exp Child Psychol. 2014 Jul;123:147-54. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.12.004. Epub 
      2014 Jan 17.