کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
918139 919454 2013 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Blocking in children’s causal learning depends on working memory and reasoning abilities
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی روانشناسی روانشناسی رشد و آموزشی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Blocking in children’s causal learning depends on working memory and reasoning abilities
چکیده انگلیسی

A sample of 99 children completed a causal learning task that was an analogue of the food allergy paradigm used with adults. The cue competition effects of blocking and unovershadowing were assessed under forward and backward presentation conditions. Children also answered questions probing their ability to make the inference posited to be necessary for blocking by a reasoning account of cue competition. For the first time, children’s working memory and general verbal ability were also measured alongside their causal learning. The magnitude of blocking and unovershadowing effects increased with age. However, analyses showed that the best predictor of both blocking and unovershadowing effects was children’s performance on the reasoning questions. The magnitude of the blocking effect was also predicted by children’s working memory abilities. These findings provide new evidence that cue competition effects such as blocking are underpinned by effortful reasoning processes.


► The first study to examine the role of working memory in children’s causal learning.
► Working memory abilities were a better predictor than age in determining learning.
► Reasoning abilities also predicted learning.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology - Volume 115, Issue 3, July 2013, Pages 562–569
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