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Direct linkBeck, Sarah R.; Robinson, Elizabeth J.; Carroll, Daniel J.; Apperly, Ian A. – Child Development, 2006
Two experiments explored whether children's correct answers to counter factual and future hypothetical questions were based on an understanding of possibilities. Children played a game in which a toy mouse could run down either 1 of 2 slides. Children found it difficult to mark physically both possible outcomes, compared to reporting a single…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Child Development, Young Children, Probability
