کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
926792 921902 2010 14 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers’ causal inferences
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers’ causal inferences
چکیده انگلیسی

Adults’ causal representations integrate information about predictive relations and the possibility of effective intervention; if one event reliably predicts another, adults can represent the possibility that acting to bring about the first event might generate the second. Here we show that although toddlers (mean age: 24 months) readily learn predictive relationships between physically connected events, they do not spontaneously initiate one event to try to generate the second (although older children, mean age: 47 months, do; Experiments 1 and 2). Toddlers succeed only when the events are initiated by a dispositional agent (Experiment 3), when the events involve direct contact between objects (Experiment 4), or when the events are described using causal language (Experiment 5). This suggests that causal language may help children extend their initial causal representations beyond agent-initiated and direct contact events.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognition - Volume 115, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 104–117
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