Research on early physical reasoning has shown surprising discontinuities in developmental trajectories. Infants possess some skills that seem to disappear and then re-emerge in childhood. It has been suggested that prediction skills required in search tasks might cause these discontinuities (Keen, 2003). We tested 3.5- to 5-year-olds’ understanding of collision events using a forced-choice paradigm with reduced prediction demands. Although the group as a whole performed at chance level, when the preschoolers were subdivided into three age groups, the oldest group performed above chance level. These findings suggest that it is unlikely to be prediction skills that affect young preschoolers’ performance on physical reasoning tasks. The findi...
<div><p>Causal reasoning is an important aspect of scientific thinking. Even young human children ca...
Four experiments examined children's ability to reason about the causal significance of the order in...
Piaget (1953) believed object permanence emerges through a series of stages at approximately 18-mont...
Research on early physical reasoning has shown surprising discontinuities in developmental trajector...
ABsrRAcr How do infants learn about the physical world? Current research on the development of infan...
The present research investigated young infants' understanding of events in which a moving object co...
Previous research has suggested that preschoolers possess a cognitive system that allows them to con...
This research looked at young children's ability to reason about the causal relations between events...
International audiencePreverbal infants manifest probabilistic intuitions in their reactions to the ...
The violation-of-expectation paradigm investigates infants' physical knowledge by exploiting th...
Six experiments examined children's ability to make inferences using temporal order information. Chi...
Physical reasoning is the ability to go beyond the information in the immediate perceptual array. Fo...
Four experiments examined children's ability to reason about the causal significance of the order in...
This study investigated 5- to 13-year-old children's performance in solving horizontal projectil...
The conceptual understanding that children display when predicting physical events has been shown to...
<div><p>Causal reasoning is an important aspect of scientific thinking. Even young human children ca...
Four experiments examined children's ability to reason about the causal significance of the order in...
Piaget (1953) believed object permanence emerges through a series of stages at approximately 18-mont...
Research on early physical reasoning has shown surprising discontinuities in developmental trajector...
ABsrRAcr How do infants learn about the physical world? Current research on the development of infan...
The present research investigated young infants' understanding of events in which a moving object co...
Previous research has suggested that preschoolers possess a cognitive system that allows them to con...
This research looked at young children's ability to reason about the causal relations between events...
International audiencePreverbal infants manifest probabilistic intuitions in their reactions to the ...
The violation-of-expectation paradigm investigates infants' physical knowledge by exploiting th...
Six experiments examined children's ability to make inferences using temporal order information. Chi...
Physical reasoning is the ability to go beyond the information in the immediate perceptual array. Fo...
Four experiments examined children's ability to reason about the causal significance of the order in...
This study investigated 5- to 13-year-old children's performance in solving horizontal projectil...
The conceptual understanding that children display when predicting physical events has been shown to...
<div><p>Causal reasoning is an important aspect of scientific thinking. Even young human children ca...
Four experiments examined children's ability to reason about the causal significance of the order in...
Piaget (1953) believed object permanence emerges through a series of stages at approximately 18-mont...