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Causal learning mechanisms in very young children: two-, three-, and four-year-olds infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Gopnik, Alison Sobel, David M. Schulz, Laura E. Glymour, Clark |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Three studies investigated whether young children make accurate causal inferences on the basis of patterns of variation and covariation. Children were presented with a new causal relation by means of a machine called the "blicket detector." Some objects, but not others, made the machine light up and play music. In the first 2 experiments, children were told that "blickets make the machine go" and were then asked to identify which objects were "blickets." Two-, 3-, and 4-year-old children were shown various patterns of variation and covariation between two different objects and the activation of the machine. All 3 age groups took this information into account in their causal judgments about which objects were blickets. In a 3rd experiment, 3- and 4-year-old children used the information when they were asked to make the machine stop. These results are related to Bayes-net causal graphical models of causal learning. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1037//0012-1649.37.5.620 |
| PubMed reference number | 11552758 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 37 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1286&context=philosophy |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rmckinn2/3500/child%20learning.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1037/%2F0012-1649.37.5.620 |
| Journal | Developmental psychology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
