Psychological scientists use statistical information to determine the workings of human
behavior. We argue that young children do so as well. Over the course of a few years …

Previous research has revealed that infants can reason correctly about single‐event
probabilities with small but not large set sizes (Bonatti, 2008; Teglas et al., 2007). The …

We present a proposal—“The Sampling Hypothesis”—suggesting that the variability in
young children's responses may be part of a rational strategy for inductive inference. In …

This is the third volume of a three-volume set on The Innate Mind. The extent to which
cognitive structures, processes, and contents are innate is one of the central questions …

Happiness with an outcome often depends on whether better or worse outcomes were
initially more likely. In five experiments, we found that young children (N= 620, Experiments …

All students of cognitive development agree that the central questions in development are 1)
specifying the initial state of a human infant, 2) specifying the final state of development for a …

Chance, randomness and probability constitute statistical notions that are interrelated and
characterize the logicomathematical thinking of children. Traditional theories support that …

Improbable events are surprising. However, it is unknown whether children consider
probability when attributing surprise to other people. We conducted four experiments that …

Ergül, A. Erken Matematiksel Akıl Yürütme Becerileri Değerlendirme Aracı Geliştirilmesi.
Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Çocuk Gelişimi ve Eğitimi Programı …

In classic examinations of the representativeness heuristic, Kahneman and Tversky (1973)
presented adult participants with a description of an individual who fit their stereotype of a …