Diversity Effect in Category-Based Inductive Reasoning of Young Children

Evidence from Two Methods

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ID13673069
AuthorsLuojin Zhong (South China Normal University), MYUNG SOOK LEE (0000-0002-2148-7394, Daegu National University of Education), Yulan Huang (0000-0002-6828-0745), Lei Mo (0000-0001-8586-7508, South China Normal University, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume114
Issue1
Pages198-215
Publication date2014-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/10.11.pr0.114k17w3
PMID24765721
OpenAlexW1973470576
LanguageEN
References cited32

Previous studies have shown that diverse pieces of evidence, rather than similar pieces of evidence, are considered to have greater strength in adults' inductive reasoning. However, this diversity effect is inconsistently recognized by children. Three experiments using the same materials but different tasks examined whether young children consider the diversity principle in their reasoning. Although Experiment 1 applied a data selection task showed five-year-old children in both China and Korea were not sensitive to the diversity of evidence, Experiments 2 and 3 employed an identification task and demonstrated that children as young as five years were sensitive to diverse evidence. These findings indicated that young children, less than nine years of age, may have diversity effect. Methodological and cultural differences were discussed

Biology · Cultural diversity · Developmental psychology · Diversity (politics · Identification (biology · Selection (genetic algorithm · Task (project management · Artificial Intelligence · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · Ecology · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Psychology

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