Causal Knowledge and Children's Possibility Judgments

Autor/inn/en	Goulding, Brandon W.; Stonehouse, Emily Elizabeth; Friedman, Ori
Titel	Causal Knowledge and Children's Possibility Judgments
Quelle	In: Child Development, 93 (2022) 3, S.794-803 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Goulding, Brandon W.) ORCID (Friedman, Ori)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13718
Schlagwörter	Young Children; Knowledge Level; Attribution Theory; Influences; Foreign Countries; Beliefs; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Frühe Kindheit; Wissensbasis; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Ausland; Belief; Glaube; Kanada
Abstract	Children often say that strange and improbable events, like eating pickle-flavored ice cream, are impossible. Two experiments explored whether these beliefs are explained by limits in children's causal knowledge. Participants were 423 predominantly White Canadian 4- to 7-year-olds (44% female) tested in 2020-2021. Providing children with causal information about ordinary events did not lead them to affirm that improbable events are possible, and they more often affirmed improbable events after merely learning that a similar event had occurred. However, children were "most" likely to affirm events if they learned "how" similar events happened (OR = 2.16). The findings suggest that knowledge of causal circumstances may only impact children's beliefs about the possibility "after" they are able to draw connections between potential events and known events. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01