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Kushnir, Tamar; Wellman, Henry M.; Gelman, Susan A. – Cognition, 2008
Preschoolers use information from interventions, namely intentional actions, to make causal inferences. We asked whether children consider some interventions to be more informative than others based on two components of an actor's knowledge state: whether an actor "possesses" causal knowledge, and whether an actor is allowed to "use" their…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Toys, Inferences, Preschool Children