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Geurten, Marie; Willems, Sylvie; Lloyd, Marianne – Child Development, 2021
We tested whether changes in attribution processes could account for the developmental differences observed in how children's use fluency to guide their memory decisions. Children ranging in age from 4 to 9 years studied a list of familiar or unfamiliar cartoon characters. In Experiment 1 (n = 84), participants completed a recognition test during…
Descriptors: Young Children, Attribution Theory, Memory, Recognition (Psychology)
Seiver, Elizabeth; Gopnik, Alison; Goodman, Noah D. – Child Development, 2013
Children rely on both evidence and prior knowledge to make physical causal inferences; this study explores whether they make attributions about others' behavior in the same manner. A total of one hundred and fifty-nine 4- and 6-year-olds saw 2 dolls interacting with 2 activities, and explained the dolls' actions. In the person condition, each doll…
Descriptors: Inferences, Prior Learning, Attribution Theory, Toys
Erickson, Jane E.; Keil, Frank C.; Lockhart, Kristi L. – Child Development, 2010
To what extent do children understand that biological processes fall into 1 coherent domain unified by distinct causal principles? In Experiments 1 and 2 (N = 125) kindergartners are given triads of biological and psychological processes and asked to identify which 2 members of the triad belong together. Results show that 5-year-olds correctly…
Descriptors: Biology, Psychology, Kindergarten, Task Analysis
Pellicano, Elizabeth – Child Development, 2010
This longitudinal study tested the veracity of one candidate multiple-deficits account of autism by assessing 37 children with autism (M age = 67.9 months) and 31 typical children (M age = 65.2 months) on tasks tapping components of theory of mind (ToM), executive function (EF), and central coherence (CC) at intake and again 3 years later. As a…
Descriptors: Autism, Skill Development, Cognitive Ability, Longitudinal Studies
Scott, Rose M.; Baillargeon, Renee – Child Development, 2009
Recent research has shown that infants as young as 13 months can attribute false beliefs to agents, suggesting that the psychological-reasoning subsystem necessary for attributing reality-incongruent informational states (Subsystem-2, SS2) is operational in infancy. The present research asked whether 18-month-olds' false-belief reasoning extends…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes

Shultz, Thomas R.; Butkowsky, Irwin – Child Development, 1977
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education

Rholes, William S.; Walters, Jackie – Child Development, 1982
The study was to determine when the patterns of causal evidence proposed by Orvis, Cunningham and Kelly (1975) begin to function as schemata in the attributional process. One hundred forty-four subjects took part in the study. (RH)
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Children, Cognitive Development

Shultz, Thomas R.; Ravinsky, Frances B. – Child Development, 1977
This study examined the general importance of similarity in children's causal reasoning and the relation between similarity and the other principles of causal inference. Participants were 16 boys and 16 girls at each of four grade levels: K, 2, 4, and 6. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Fundamental Concepts

Fabricius, William V.; Cavalier, Lynn – Child Development, 1989
Investigated children's causal-explanatory conceptions of the workings of a labeling strategy. The 72 children of four-six years showed two types of conceptions, both of which increased with age. (RJC)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Metacognition

Hortacsu, Nuran – Child Development, 1987
The hypothesis that, when trying to decide whether the person, stimulus, or circumstance is the cause of an event, individuals increasingly select schema-consistent information with increasing age was tested in 106 Turkish 9-, 12-, and 17-year-old subjects. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Children

Hook, J. G. – Child Development, 1989
A study showed that 5- to 15-year-old children first employed Heider's commission rule, then his intentionality rule, and finally the foreseeability rule at about 11 years of age. Results suggest that both the Heider and Piaget attribution research traditions were correct in part. (RH)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Piagetian Theory

Younger, Barbara A.; Cohen, Leslie B. – Child Development, 1986
Examines developmental change in 4- 7- and 10-month-old infants' perceptions of correlations among attributes to determine whether relational information plays a role in abilities ranging from the perception and recognition of a simple pattern to the formation of a category. (HOD)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

Courtney, Mary Lynne; Cohen, Robert – Child Development, 1996
Examined whether aggressive boys' hostile attribution bias extends to processing incoming information. Subjects were asked to segment videotaped actions based on information conditions about the two boys playing in the film. Aggressiveness predicted change in segmentation after the critical event only in the neutral prior-information condition,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Processes, Hostility

Rholes, William S.; Ruble, Diane N. – Child Development, 1986
Examines the implications of temporal separation for children's developmental differences in inferences drawn about an individual's characteristics after observing multiple instances of that individual's behavior. Also tests two competing hypotheses about how young children process information separated in time. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development

Rosengren, Karl S.; Hickling, Anne K. – Child Development, 1994
Children's magical explanations and beliefs were investigated in two studies. Found that many four-year olds view magic as a plausible mechanism, yet reserve magical explanations for certain real world events that violate their causal expectations. Parents and culture at large may at first actively support magical beliefs whereas peers and schools…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Child Development