Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ539832
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Children's Causal Explanations of Animate and Inanimate Motion.
Gelman, Susan A.; Gottfried, Gail M.
Child Development, v67 n5 p1970-87 Oct 1996
Three studies examined whether and when preschool children are willing to attribute internal and immanent causes to motion. Found that preschool children were more likely to attribute immanent cause to motion in animals than in artifacts and more likely to attribute human cause to motion in artifacts than in animals. (MDM)
Descriptors: Animals, Attribution Theory, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages, Motion, Preschool Children
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Inanimate Objects


