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Direct linkWalker, Caren M.; Gopnik, Alison; Ganea, Patricia A. – Child Development, 2015
Fiction presents a unique challenge to the developing child, in that children must learn when to generalize information from stories to the real world. This study examines how children acquire causal knowledge from storybooks, and whether children are sensitive to how closely the fictional world resembles reality. Preschoolers (N = 108) listened…
Descriptors: Child Development, Generalization, Fiction, Attribution Theory
