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Goddu, Mariel K.; Gopnik, Alison – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Novel causal systems pose a problem of variable choice: How can a reasoner decide which variable is causally relevant? Which variable in the system should a learner manipulate to try to produce a desired, yet unfamiliar, casual outcome? In much causal reasoning research, participants learn how a particular set of preselected variables produce a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Causal Models, Logical Thinking, Inferences