How Is the Hypothesis Space Represented? Evidence From Young Children's Active Search and Predictions in a Multiple-Cue Inference Task.

To successfully navigate an uncertain world, one has to learn the relationship between cues (e.g., wind speed, atmospheric pressure) and outcomes (e.g., rain). When learning, it is possible to actively manipulate the cue values to test hypotheses about this relationship directly. Across two studies,...

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Published in:Developmental Psychology Vol. 57; no. 7; pp. 1080 - 1094
Main Authors: Jones, Angela, Mai-kant, Douglas B., Pachur, Thorsten, Gopnik, Alison, Ruggeri, Azzurra
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Jul2021
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