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Sobel, David M.; Munro, Sarah E. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
In 5 experiments the authors examined children's understanding of causal mechanisms and their reasoning about base rates across domains of knowledge. Experiment 1 showed that 3-year-olds interpret objects activating a machine differently from a novel agent liking each object; children are more likely to treat the latter as indicating the objects…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Inferences, Influences, Young Children
Schulz, Laura E.; Bonawitz, Elizabeth Baraff; Griffiths, Thomas L. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Causal learning requires integrating constraints provided by domain-specific theories with domain-general statistical learning. In order to investigate the interaction between these factors, the authors presented preschoolers with stories pitting their existing theories against statistical evidence. Each child heard 2 stories in which 2 candidate…
Descriptors: Inferences, Young Children, Bayesian Statistics, Story Telling