Functional Measurement of Children's Judgments

Children judged attractiveness of pairs of toys in a 3 X 3 design. These judgments obeyed the parallelism prediction of information integration theory, thus supporting either an adding or an averaging model. An auxiliary critical test eliminated the adding model. Quite similar results were obtained...

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Published in:Child development 1973-09, Vol.44 (3), p.529-537
Main Authors: Butzin, Clifford A., Anderson, Norman H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age groups
Children
Crossovers
Integration theorems
Modeling
Moral judgment
Musical intervals
Term weighting
Toy models
Toys
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Summary:Children judged attractiveness of pairs of toys in a 3 X 3 design. These judgments obeyed the parallelism prediction of information integration theory, thus supporting either an adding or an averaging model. An auxiliary critical test eliminated the adding model. Quite similar results were obtained for children 5-7 and children 7-13. These results extend the range of the averaging hypothesis of general integration theory from adults to children. They also illustrate the applicability of functional measurement methodology to obtain interval scales of subjective value for the individual child.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.2307/1128009