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Direct linkMorsanyi, Kinga; Handley, Simon J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
We examined the relationship between cognitive capacity and heuristic responding on four types of reasoning and decision-making tasks. A total of 84 children, between 5 years 2 months and 11 years 7 months of age, participated in the study. There was a marked increase in heuristic responding with age that was related to increases in cognitive…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Memory, Young Children, Cognitive Ability
Morsanyi, Kinga; Handley, Simon J.; Serpell, Sylvie – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: The equiprobability bias is a tendency for individuals to think of probabilistic events as "equiprobable" by nature, and to judge outcomes that occur with different probabilities as equally likely. The equiprobability bias has been repeatedly found to be related to formal education in statistics, and it is claimed to be based…
Descriptors: Probability, Bias, Training, Cognitive Ability
