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Alvarez, Aubry; Booth, Amy E. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Preschoolers, as a group, are highly attuned to causality, and this attunement is known to facilitate memory, learning, and problem solving. However, recent work reveals substantial individual variability in the strength of children's "causal stance," as demonstrated by their curiosity about and preference for new causal information. In…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Individual Differences, Preferences, Causal Models
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Yuill, Nicola; Pearson, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Two studies investigated 4- to 7-year-olds' understanding that trait can be causal mechanisms based on desires or mere summaries of behavioral regularities. Results suggested that children change from viewing traits as behavioral regularities to understanding them as internal mediators and that advances in understanding desire underlie this…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Causal Models
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Deary, Ian J. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Tested three competing structural equation models concerning auditory inspection time (AIT) and cognitive ability. Found that auditory inspection times near age 11 correlate most strongly with later high IQ. (ET)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Auditory Perception, Causal Models