Narjes Sargolzaie, Samaneh Sargazi, Ghazaleh Lotfi
Concept mapping as a tool to improve medical student's learning about rabies surveillance
Journal of education and health promotion
reasoning uncertainty bread butter everyday life many areas psychology cognitive developmental social clinical interested individuals make inferences decisions incomplete information ability reason uncertainty necessarily involves probability computations exact calculations estimations developmental origins probabilistic reasoning recent work begun examine whether infants toddlers compute probabilities however previous experiments confounded quantity probabilityin cases young human learners could relied simple comparisons absolute quantities opposed proportions succeed tasks present four experiments providing evidence infants younger 12 months show sensitivity probabilities based proportions furthermore infants use sensitivity make predictions fulfill desires providing first demonstration even preverbal learners use probabilistic information navigate world results provide strong evidence rich quantitative statistical reasoning system infants