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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"inductive inferences"”.
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Children's Use of Race in Drawing Inferences Based on Their Understanding of Race Constancy
… subsequent use of race as a means of drawing inductive inferences were investigated. Race constancy was determined by children’s tendency to say that people could change category membership by changing their outside appearance. A second phase of the study measured how many race-based …
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The acquisition of inductive constraints
Human learners routinely make inductive inferences, or inferences that go beyond the data they have observed. Inferences like these must be supported by constraints, some of which are innate, although others are almost certainly learned. This thesis presents a hierarchical Bayesian framework that …
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What Kind of Food Is an Apple? Children's Script, Taxonomic, and Evaluative Categories of Food
… can selectively use categories to make inductive inferences about foods. Evaluative categories were revisited in Experiments 6--8. The findings were that 4- and 7-year-olds form evaluative categories and can selectively use them for inferences. Taken together, the results from …
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The same cognitive mechanism underlies reasoning about the features of kinds and the traits of individuals
… isolation. Here, however, we propose that inferences about the features of kinds and the traits of individuals are in fact computed by the same cognitive mechanism. To test this hypothesis, we investigated whether kind-feature and individual-trait inferences share two distinctive …
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Property Inference Decision-Making and Decision Switching of Undergraduate Engineers: Implications for Ideational Diversity & Fluency through Movements in a Cartesian Concept Design Space
… education and engineering design particularly on inductive reasoning of undergraduate engineering students in higher education. The data gathered and analysed for this study provides an insight into property inference decision-making preferences and decision switching (SWITCH) patterns of …