Mechanisms of induction in children and adults: Evidence from the study of memory distortions

This paper examines mechanisms underlying induction in young children and adults. Predictions of two alternative theories of induction were tested on 37 young children and 51 adults using the DRM paradigm. The findings indicate that young children are more likely to perform similarity-based induction, and adults are more likely to perform category-based induction. Also, the reported experiment demonstrates that under certain conditions young children exhibit better memory performance than adults.

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