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Direct linkSchulz, Laura E.; Gopnik, Alison – Developmental Psychology, 2004
Five studies investigated (a) children's ability to use the dependent and independent probabilities of events to make causal inferences and (b) the interaction between such inferences and domain-specific knowledge. In Experiment 1, preschoolers used patterns of dependence and independence to make accurate causal inferences in the domains of…
Descriptors: Inferences, Biology, Cognitive Style, Probability
