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ERIC Number: EJ401221
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Young Children's Causal Inferences.
Gupta, P. Das; Bryant, P. E.
Child Development, v60 n5 p1138-46 Oct 1989
Two experiments demonstrated that by the age of four years, children can use the difference between an object's initial and final state to work out what happens to an object when it changes. In contrast, three-year-old children have difficulty in using the difference between initial and final states to make a causal inference. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Etiology, Inferences, Preschool Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Causal Inferences