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Developmental change in the use of relevant recall as a basis for judgements
Author(s) -
Thornton Stephanie
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1996.tb02599.x
Subject(s) - judgement , psychology , recall , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , context (archaeology) , perspective (graphical) , heuristics , heuristic , cued speech , developmental psychology , social psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , management , economics , biology , operating system
This paper explores a judgement heuristic (availability; Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982) from a developmental perspective. A series of four studies using two different types of task finds that the judgement bias associated with the availability heuristic can be replicated in children of six years and older. However, six‐year‐olds are less likely to base judgement on recall than their elders, and do so only where recall is directly cued or where the judgement task is embedded in a familiar and interesting context. Results are discussed in relation to both developmental and adult judgement issues.