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Use of the availability heuristic by children
Author(s) -
Davies Mary,
White Peter A.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1994.tb00651.x
Subject(s) - psychology , heuristic , frequency , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , statistics , computer science , mathematics
Two groups of children aged 7 and 10 years made judgements of the relative frequency of names and human and animal cartoon characters in a list presented to them. Children in both age groups erroneously judged the category containing the more famous names to be more numerous, supporting the hypothesis that they were using the availability heuristic.