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Direct linkAlexandra O. Cohen; Kate Nussenbaum; Hayley M. Dorfman; Samuel J. Gershman; Catherine A. Hartley – npj Science of Learning, 2020
Beliefs about the controllability of positive or negative events in the environment can shape learning throughout the lifespan. Previous research has shown that adults' learning is modulated by beliefs about the causal structure of the environment such that they update their value estimates to a lesser extent when the outcomes can be attributed to…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Young Adults, Reinforcement
McCormack, Teresa; Frosch, Caren; Patrick, Fiona; Lagnado, David – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
Three experiments examined children's and adults' abilities to use statistical and temporal information to distinguish between common cause and causal chain structures. In Experiment 1, participants were provided with conditional probability information and/or temporal information and asked to infer the causal structure of a 3-variable mechanical…
Descriptors: Probability, Age Differences, Children, Intervention
Download full textDasinger, Jacob Arthur – Journal of Developmental Education, 2013
This research examined differences in causal attributions and an exam score in a developmental mathematics course based on student classification: traditional, minimally nontraditional, moderately nontraditional, and highly nontraditional as well as grade and gender among nontraditional students. Statistical analysis revealed significant…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Student Characteristics, Gender Differences
Klaczynski, Paul; Daniel, David B.; Keller, Peggy S. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
We explored the hypotheses that adolescents have more negative obesity stereotypes than children and that age differences in obesity stereotypes are mediated by weight attributions, body esteem, and appearance idealization. Hispanic- and Caucasian-American children completed measures of appearance idealization, body esteem, and attributions about…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Ethnicity, Obesity, Females
Peer reviewedYuill, 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
Roskam, Isabelle – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
The purpose of this paper focuses on mothers' beliefs about their child's personality and development (stability or change and causal attributions) and how these beliefs can be affected by mothers' experience (being a mother of a six or of a twelve-year-old child and being a mother of a normally-developing or of a mentally disabled child). The…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Mothers, Personality Traits, Mental Retardation
