CUE UTILIZATION BEHAVIOR OF YOUNG CHILDREN IN MULTIPLE-CUE PROBABILITY LEARNING
MICHIE DOI · The Japanese journal of psychology · 1977
The cue utilization behavior of six-year-old children in multi-dimensional judgement tasks was studied in two experiments based on the multiple-cue probability learning (MPL) paradigm. The task required subjects to use two stimulus dimensions as cues to predict a lever distance, a criterion which was determined by an experimenter. In Exp. I, the effect of cue dominance on the task performance were examined. The results showed that the children had a tendency to use solely dominant cue for the task, and the performance was a function of the cue validity (cue-criterion correlation) of dominant cue. In Exp. II, children's ability to use simultaneously multiple cues corresponding to the cue validity was confirmed, under the optimal condition of cue properties.