{"pk":26419,"title":"The development of heuristics in children: Base-rate neglect and representativeness","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the development of therepresentativeness heuristic in early childhood. Using a novelparadigm, we investigated 3- to 6-year-old children’s abilityto use base-rate and individuating information in theirpredictive inferences. In Experiment 1, we presented childrenwith base-rate and individuating information separately to testtheir ability to use each independently. In Experiment 2, wepresented children with base-rate and individuatinginformation together. Two critical trial types were used, onein which the base-rate information and individuatinginformation pointed to the same response and one in whichthe base-rate and individuating information pointed toconflicting responses. Results suggest that children progressto adult-like heuristic-based responding at 6 years of age.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"decision making"},{"word":"base-rate neglect"},{"word":"Heuristics"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57q5v3vx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Samantha","middle_name":"","last_name":"Gualtieri","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Waterloo","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephanie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Denison","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Waterloo","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26419/galley/16055/download/"}]}