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Direct linkGoddu, Mariel K.; Lombrozo, Tania; Gopnik, Alison – Child Development, 2020
Previous research suggests that preschoolers struggle with understanding abstract relations and with "reasoning by analogy." Four experiments find, in contrast, that 3- and 4-year-olds (N = 168) are surprisingly adept at relational and analogical reasoning within a causal context. In earlier studies preschoolers routinely favored images…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Logical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Causal Models
