Children's Reasoning about the Causal Significance of the Temporal Order of Events

Autor/inn/en	Teresa, McCormack; Hoerl, Christoph
Titel	Children's Reasoning about the Causal Significance of the Temporal Order of Events
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 41 (2005) 1, S.54-63 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
Schlagwörter	Inferences; Cues; Children; Preschool Children; Abstract Reasoning; Thinking Skills; Task Analysis; Serial Ordering + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inference; Inferenz; Stichwort; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Aufgabenanalyse; Ordnen; Ordnungsstruktur; Ordnungssystem
Abstract	Four experiments examined children's ability to reason about the causal significance of the order in which 2 events occurred (the pressing of buttons on a mechanically operated box). In Study 1, 4-year-olds were unable to make the relevant inferences, whereas 5-year-olds were successful on one version of the task. In Study 2, 3-year-olds were successful on a simplified version of the task in which they were able to observe the events although not their consequences. Study 3 found that older children had difficulties with the original task even when provided with cues to attend to order information. However, 5-year-olds performed successfully in Study 4, in which the causally relevant event was made more salient. (Author).
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