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Peer reviewedFrye, Douglas; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Two marble-and-ramp experiments investigated whether a simple-to-embedded-rules account can explain changes in children's causal reasoning. Results indicated that the same difference between three- and four-year olds in the prediction experiment appeared in the action experiment, suggesting that the same rules may underlie causal action as well as…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking
