Giving the giggles: prediction, intervention, and young children's representation of psychological events.

Adults recognize that if event A predicts event B, intervening on A might generate B. Research suggests that young children have difficulty making this inference unless the events are initiated by goal-directed actions [1]. The current study tested the domain-generality and development of this pheno...

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Main Authors: Paul Muentener, Daniel Friel, Laura Schulz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3423398?pdf=render