Running head: SIMPLICITY IN EXPLANATION Occam’s Rattle: Children’s use of simplicity and probability to constrain inference
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Occam's rattle: children's use of simplicity and probability to constrain inference.
A growing literature suggests that generating and evaluating explanations is a key mechanism for learning and inference, but little is known about how children generate and select competing explanations. This study investigates whether young children prefer explanations that are simple, where simplicity is quantified as the number of causes invoked in an explanation, and how this preference is ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2011