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Goulding, Brandon W.; Stonehouse, Emily Elizabeth; Friedman, Ori – Child Development, 2022
Children often say that strange and improbable events, like eating pickle-flavored ice cream, are impossible. Two experiments explored whether these beliefs are explained by limits in children's causal knowledge. Participants were 423 predominantly White Canadian 4- to 7-year-olds (44% female) tested in 2020-2021. Providing children with causal…
Descriptors: Young Children, Knowledge Level, Attribution Theory, Influences
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Perry, David G.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Explores some attributional determinants of third and fourth graders' self-punishment following transgression in a moral situation. Results were interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that children who are told by adults that they possess desirable moral characteristics experience particularly strong remorse when they fail to exercise…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Children, Foreign Countries
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Asarnow, Joan Rosenbaum; Meichenbaum, Donald – Child Development, 1979
Investigates the relative efficacy of three training procedures in improving serial recall in kindergarten children who either showed no tendency to rehearse or rehearsed inconsistently at a serial recall pretest. Self-instructional training, an induced rehearsal procedure, and a practice control condition comprised the three training procedures.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten Children, Mediation Theory