Of Blickets, Butterflies, and Baby Dinosaurs: Children’s Diagnostic Reasoning Across Domains

Of Blickets, Butterflies, and Baby Dinosaurs: Children’s Diagnostic Reasoning Across Domains

The three studies presented here examine children’s ability to make diagnostic inferences about an interactive causal structure across different domains. Previous work has shown that children’s abilities to make diagnostic inferences about a physical system develops between the ages of 5 and 8. Expe...

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Main Authors: Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Elysia Choi, David M. Sobel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
diagnostic inference
scientific reasoning
early elementary school
causal reasoning
contextualization
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02210/full

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